May God's Grace... Favor and Peace, His perfect well-being with freedom from fears, agitating passions and moral conflicts, be multiplied to you in the full, personal, precise, and correct knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that are requisite and suited to life and godliness, through the full, personal knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence virtue.
By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them we may escape by flight from the moral decay, rottenness and corruption that is in the world because of our lust and greed, and become partakers, sharing in the divine nature.
For this very reason, adding your diligence to the divine promises, employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue... resolution, and in exercising virtue develop knowledge... intelligence, and in exercising knowledge develop self-control... Self denial in submission to Lordship, and in exercising self-control develop steadfastness... patience endurance, and in exercising steadfastness develop godliness... piety, and in exercising godliness develop brotherly affection... love for others, and in exercising brotherly affection develop Christian love... love for God.
For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep you from being idle or unfruitful with the full personal knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ... the Messiah... the Anointed One. For whoever lacks these qualities is blind, spiritually shortsighted, seeing only what is near to him, and has become oblivious to the fact that he was cleansed from his old sins.
Because of this, brethren, be all the more solicitous and eager to make sure... to ratify... to strengthen... to make steadfast your calling and election; for if you do this, all of the above, you will never stumble or fall. Thus there will be richly and abundantly provided for you entry into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
YOU WILL NEVER STUMBLE OR FALL
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