The Second Epistle General Of Peter/ Grow In christian Character.

II PETER 1:1-21

Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and Saviour Jesus Christ:  grace and peace be multiplies unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godiliness, through the knowledge of him that called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exeeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the Divine nature, having escaped the corruption of this world through lust.

And beside this giving all dilidence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.  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.

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling sure: for if ye do these things you shall never fall: