5. For this reason make every effort to add virtue to your faith; and to your virtue, knowledge;
6. and to your knowledge, self-control; and to your self-control, patient endurance; and to your patient endurance, godliness;
7. and to your godliness, brotherly kindness; and to your brotherly kindness, love.
8. For if these things reside in you and abound, they ensure that you will neither be useless nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.