Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

⁵ And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;

⁶ And in knowledge, abstinence; and in abstinence, patience; and in patience, godliness;

⁷ And in godliness, love of brotherhood; and in love of brotherhood, charity.

⁸ For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to be neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ For he that hath not these things with him, is blind, and groping, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

¹⁰ Wherefore, brethren, labour the more, that by good works you may make sure your calling and election. For doing these things, you shall not sin at any time.

¹¹ For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.