2 Peter 1:5-9

Responding to God's promises with all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, patient endurance; and to patient endurance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly affection; and to brotherly affection, love. Possessing these qualities in ever increasing measures will keep you from being idle and unfruitful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Anyone lacking these qualities is blind, short-sighted, having forgotten the purging of his old sins.