2 Peter 1:5-11

Goodspeed(i) 5 For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety, 7 piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love. 8 For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins. 10 Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble, 11 for then you will be triumphantly admitted to the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.