Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

^5 [a]In view of all this, you should make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, ⁶ and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with piety, ⁷ and piety with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.

⁸ If you possess these qualities and they increase in abundance, they will prevent your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ from being ineffective and unfruitful. ⁹ For anyone who lacks them is near-sighted or blind, since he has forgotten how his past sins were washed away.^[b]

¹⁰ Therefore, brethren, be diligent in providing a firm foundation for your call and election. If you do this, you will never stumble, ¹¹ and you will receive a glorious welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.^[c]