2 Peter 1:9

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Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.

For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.

The person who lacks these things is blind and shortsighted and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.

For the one for whom these things are not present is blind, being nearsighted, having forgotten the cleansing of his former sins.

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

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