For as these qualities exist and increase with you, they render you active and fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

whereas he who has not these by him is blind, shortsighted, oblivious that he has been cleansed from his erstwhile sins.

So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

whereas even angels, superior in might and power, lay no scoffing charge against these before the Lord.

These people are waterless fountains and mists driven by a squall, for whom the nether gloom of darkness is reserved.