2 Peter 1:1–10

¹Simon Peter, bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have received like precious faith with us through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: ²Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. ³As his divine power has given to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us by glory and virtue, ⁴through which he has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

⁵But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge, ⁶in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness, ⁷in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love: ⁸for these things existing and abounding in you make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins. ¹⁰Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall;