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and [for] this same [reason], and [by] applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge,
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and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness,
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and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.
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For [if] these [things] are yours and are increasing, this does not make [you] useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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For [the one] for whom these [things] [are] not present is blind, being nearsighted, {having forgotten the cleansing} of his former sins.
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