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But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,
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to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,
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to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
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For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
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Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;
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for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth.
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Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,
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knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.
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Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my decease.