7. concern for others, and love.
8. If you keep growing in this way, it will show that what you know about our Lord Jesus Christ has made your lives useful and meaningful.
9. But if you don't grow, you are like someone who is nearsighted or blind, and you have forgotten that your past sins are forgiven.
10. My friends, you must do all you can to show that God has really chosen and selected you. If you keep on doing this, you won't stumble and fall.
11. Then our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ will give you a glorious welcome into his kingdom that will last for ever.
12. You are holding firmly to the truth that you were given. But I am still going to remind you of these things.
13. In fact, I think I should keep on reminding you until I leave this body.
14. And our Lord Jesus Christ has already told me that I will soon leave it behind.
15. That is why I am doing my best to make sure that each of you remembers all this after I am gone.
16. When we told you about the power and the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, we were not telling clever stories that someone had made up. But with our own eyes we saw his true greatness.