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your godliness with brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness with love. For if you possess these qualities, and if they continue to increase among you, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.[a] For the person who lacks these qualities is blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten the cleansing that he has received from his past sins.

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  1. 2 Peter 1:8 Or Christ

and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.(A) For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive(B) in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.(C) But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind,(D) forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.(E)

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