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8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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9 For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.
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9 But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
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10 Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble ;
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10 Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall,
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11 for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.
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11 and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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