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8 With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus.
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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 Without these qualities you can't see what's right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.
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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, friends, confirm God's invitation to you, his choice of you. Don't put it off; do it now. Do this, and you'll have your life on a firm footing,
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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 the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master 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.
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