2 Peter 1:3-15 - Growth In The Faith

³ For his divine power has given us every requisite for life and piety, through our coming to know him who through his glory and excellence called us to him. ⁴ Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature. 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.

¹² Therefore I will always remind you of this, although you know it and are firmly grounded in the truth that you have. ¹³ Yet I think it right, as long as I live in my present tent, to arouse you by a reminder, ¹⁴ for I know that I must soon put it away, as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me. ¹⁵ I will also take care that after I am gone you will be able at any time to call these things to mind.