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For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with excellence, and excellence with knowledge,(A) and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love. For if these things are yours and are increasing among you, they keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.(B) For anyone who lacks these things is blind, suffering from eye disease, forgetful of the cleansing of past sins.(C)

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Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith (A)supply (B)moral [a]excellence, and in your moral excellence, (C)knowledge, and in your knowledge, (D)self-control, and in your self-control, (E)perseverance, and in your perseverance, (F)godliness, and in your godliness, (G)brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they do not make you useless nor (H)unproductive in the true (I)knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the one who lacks these qualities is (J)blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his (K)purification from his former sins.

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  1. 2 Peter 1:5 Or virtue