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For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
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and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
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and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
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For if these things are yours and abound, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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For whoever lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version)
