2 Peter 1:5-9

Growing in the Knowledge of God

5 So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better.  6 Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness. 7 Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone. 8 The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But those who fail to develop these virtues are blind or, at least, very shortsighted. They have already forgotten that God has cleansed them from their old life of sin. (NLT)

 

Faith, moral excellence, self-control, patience, endurance, godliness and love, these virtues are what you should be working on and developing in your life. These things lead you closer and closer to Christ. Put your faith in Christ to lead you in this development so that you will be productive in life and go deeper in the knowledge of Christ.

Do not be one who forgets these things and lives only for themselves. Remember what it says about those who do not follow Christ “the blind leading the blind will fall into a pit.” Shortsightedness brings sorrow and pain, for they have forgotten that God has cleansed them from their old life of sin.

Remember that you are now a new creature in Christ and that the old person has passed away.

 

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