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5 So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better.
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5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;
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6 Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness.
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6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;
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7 Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone.
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7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
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| Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. (New Living Translation - The Bible Online) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
