3: According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

4: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

5: And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

6: And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

7: And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

8: For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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