5. Because of this, make every effort to add integrity to your faith; and to integrity add knowledge;
6. to knowledge add self-control; to self-control add endurance; to endurance add godliness;
7. to godliness add Christian affection; and to Christian affection add love.
8. If you have these qualities and they are increasing, it demonstrates that your knowledge about our Lord Jesus Christ is living and productive.
9. If these qualities aren’t present in your life, you’re shortsighted and have forgotten that you were cleansed from your past sins.
10. Therefore, brothers and sisters, use more effort to make God’s calling and choosing of you secure.If you keep doing this, you will never fall away.
11. Then you will also be given the wealth of entering into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
12. Therefore, I will always remind you about these qualities, although you already know about them and are well-grounded in the truth that you now have.
13. As long as I’m still alive, I think it’s right to refresh your memory.
14. I know that I will die soon. Our Lord Jesus Christ has made that clear to me.
15. So I will make every effort to see that you remember these things after I die.
16. When we apostles told you about the powerful coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, we didn’t base our message on clever myths that we made up. Rather, we witnessed his majesty with our own eyes.