LOVE 2 Peter 1:5-9 Part 4 of 4

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.

in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ
2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind
1 John 2:11 But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.

forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins
Ephesians 5:25b-27 ... just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
Matthew 1:21 "She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."

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