6. and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control patience; and in your patience godliness;
7. and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.
8. For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9. For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.