2 Peter 1:5-8: "For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love, For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."
This is one of my favorite passages of Scripture. Peter speaks with a concision, but to supplement our faith? Is Peter asking us as Christians to do something more than merely believe? (Sense the sarcasm).
In reality, Peter is clear that believers are to add these virtues to our faith in increasing measures, all purposed to the goal of love. Under this sort of analysis, it is not enough merely to believe unless that belief is transformative and as Christ forms the basis for our identity we will be transformed by His Holy Spirit and by His love. Let us then commit ourselves to the supreme task of growing in Christ, adding virtue, knowledge, self-control, steadfastness, godliness, brotherly affection, and love to our faith!
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