4. through which he has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5. But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,
6. in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,
7. in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love:
8. for these things existing and abounding in you make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;
9. for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins.
10. Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall;
11. for thus shall the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ be richly furnished unto you.
12. Wherefore I will be careful to put you always in mind of these things, although knowing them and established in the present truth.