[5] To achieve this, you will need to add virtue to your faith, and then knowledge to your virtue; [6] to knowledge, add discipline; to discipline, add endurance; to endurance, add godliness; [7] to godliness, add affection for others as sisters and brothers; and to affection, at last, add love. [8] For if you possess these traits and multiply them, then you will never be ineffective or unproductive in your relationship with our Lord Jesus the Anointed; [9] but if you don't have these qualities, then you will be nearsighted and blind, forgetting that your past sins have been washed away. [10] Therefore, brothers and sisters, work that much harder to confirm that God has called you and claimed you. If you do this, then you will never fall along the way; [11] and you can be sure that you will be richly welcomed into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Anointed, our Liberating King.
