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And in [exercising] godliness [develop] brotherly affection, and in [exercising] brotherly affection [develop] Christian love.

For as these qualities are yours and increasingly abound in you, they will keep [you] from being idle or unfruitful unto the [[a]full personal] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

For whoever lacks these qualities is blind, [[b]spiritually] shortsighted, [c]seeing only what is near to him, and has become oblivious [to the fact] that he was cleansed from his old sins.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:8 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. 2 Peter 1:9 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament.
  3. 2 Peter 1:9 Joseph P. Rotherham, The Emphasized Bible.

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