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Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness; and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love. For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

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and for this same reason, and by[a] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge, and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness, and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.

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For if[b] these things are yours and are increasing, this does not make you useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the one for whom these things are not present is blind, being nearsighted, having forgotten the cleansing[c] of his former sins.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:5 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“applying”) which is understood as means
  2. 2 Peter 1:8 Here “if” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as conditional
  3. 2 Peter 1:9 Literally “receiving forgetfulness of the cleansing”