Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
8 These are the qualities you need, and if you have them in abundance, they will make you active and effective in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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.
9 But if you do not have them, you are so shortsighted that you cannot see and have forgotten that you have been purified from your past sins.
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But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
10 So then, my friends, try even harder to make God's call and his choice of you a permanent experience; if you do so, you will never abandon your faith.
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Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble,
11 In this way you will be given the full right to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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