Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

⁵ Therefore, give all diligence to this. Moreover, join virtue with your faith; and with virtue, knowledge;

⁶ and with knowledge, temperance; and with temperance, patience; and with patience, godliness;

⁷ and with godliness, brotherly kindness; and with brotherly kindness, love.

⁸ For if these things are among you, and abound, they will cause you to be neither idle nor unfruitful in the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ For the one who does not have these things is blind and short-sighted and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, give all the more diligence to making your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you shall never fall.

¹¹ For by this means shall entry into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be abundantly provided to you.