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your knowledge with self-control, your self-control with endurance, your endurance with godliness, your godliness with brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness with love. For if you possess these qualities, and if they continue to increase among you, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.[a]

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  1. 2 Peter 1:8 Or Christ

and to knowledge, self-control;(A) and to self-control, perseverance;(B) and to perseverance, godliness;(C) and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.(D) For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive(E) in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.(F)

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