Study Desk

Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they do not make you useless nor unproductive in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For the one who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.