Daniel Condurachi’s Blog

³ For His divine power has bestowed upon us all
things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness,
through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him
Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).

⁴ By means of these He has bestowed on us
His precious and exceedingly great promises,
so that through them you may escape [by flight]
from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption)
that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed),
and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.

⁵ For this very reason,
adding your diligence [to the divine promises],
employ every effort in exercising your faith
to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy),
and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence),

⁶ And in [exercising] knowledge [develop] self-control,
and in [exercising] self-control [develop] steadfastness (patience, endurance),
and in [exercising] steadfastness [develop] godliness (piety),

⁷ And in [exercising] godliness [develop] brotherly affection,
and in [exercising] brotherly affection [develop] Christian love.

⁸ For as these qualities are yours
and increasingly abound in you,
they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful
unto the [full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

⁹ For whoever lacks these qualities is blind,
[spiritually] shortsighted,
seeing only what is near to him,
and has become oblivious [to the fact] that he was cleansed from his old sins.

¹⁰ Because of this, brethren,
be all the more solicitous and eager to make sure (to ratify, to strengthen, to make steadfast)
your calling and election;
for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall.

¹¹ Thus there will be richly and abundantly provided for you entry
into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

¹² So I intend always to remind you about these things,
although indeed you know them and are firm in the truth that [you] now [hold].

2nd Peter 1:3-12