⁷ and in your godliness, ^[a](A)brotherly kindness, and in your ^[b]brotherly kindness, ^[c]love. ⁸ For if these things are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor ^(B)unfruitful in the ^(C)full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For in whom these things are not present, that one is ^(D)blind, being nearsighted, having ^[d]forgotten the ^(E)purification from his former sins.