Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

⁵ And besides this, using all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,

⁶ and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness,

⁷ and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity.

⁸ For if these things be in you and abound, they make you that ye shall be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ But he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

¹⁰ Therefore brethren, give diligence all the more to make your calling and election sure, for if ye do these things ye shall never fall.

¹¹ For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.