2 Peter 1:4-6

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴ By whom he hath given us most great and precious promises: that by these you may be made partakers of the divine nature: flying the corruption of that concupiscence which is in the world.

⁵ And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;

⁶ And in knowledge, abstinence; and in abstinence, patience; and in patience, godliness;