Twentieth_Century(i)
5 Yes, and for this very reason do your best to supplement your faith by goodness, goodness by knowledge,
6 knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety,
7 piety by brotherly affection, and brotherly affection by love.
8 For, when these virtues are yours, in increasing measure, they prevent your being indifferent to, or destitute of, a fuller knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 Surely the man who has not these virtues is shortsighted even to blindness, and has chosen to forget that he has been purified from his sins of the past!
10 Therefore, Brothers, do your best to put God's Call and Selection of you beyond all doubt; for, if you do this, you will never fall.
11 For thus you will be given a triumphant admission into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.