The Ladder of Christian Virtues

2 Peter 1:5-11

For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,

knowledge with self-control, self-control with perseverance, perseverance with godliness,

godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

For if you have these qualities in abundance, they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

Indeed, whoever lacks them is blind, so shortsighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away.

Therefore, brothers, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty. For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble.

Thus you will be generously supplied with everything you need to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah.