2 Peter 1:4-8

Moffatt(i) 4 bestowing on us thereby promises precious and supreme, that by means of them you may escape the corruption produced within the world by lust, and participate in the divine nature — 5 for this very reason, do you contrive to make it your whole concern to furnish your faith with resolution, resolution with intelligence, 6 intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety, 7 piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love. 8 For as these qualities exist and increase with you, they render you active and fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;