adding them. Hasten, jump, act now to add them; don’t wait. Be energetic and earnest, strenuously work to add these things to your faith and salvation. a. Add virtue (areten): moral excellence and goodness of character; moral strength and courage. It means being an excellent person in life, a real man or a real woman; living life as you should, in the most admirable way. It means always choosing the excellent path. “Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that