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3 ) According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue:
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4 ) Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these all of you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
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5 ) And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,
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6 ) And to knowledge wilful restrain, and to wilful restrain patience, and to patience godliness,
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7 ) And to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
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8 ) For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that all of you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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9 ) But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see far off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
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10 ) Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if all of you do these things, all of you shall never fall:
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11 ) For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.