“therefore, rather, brothers, be diligent to make steadfast your calling and [divine] selection, for doing these things you may never stumble;”— 2 Peter 1:10 (LSV)
7and with piety—brotherly kindness, and with brotherly kindness—love;
8for these things being in you and abounding, make [you] neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ,
9for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;
10therefore, rather, brothers, be diligent to make steadfast your calling and [divine] selection, for doing these things you may never stumble;
11in this way the entrance into the continuous kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplemented to you.
12Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you about these things, although you have known [them] and have been established in the present truth,
13and I think right, so long as I am in this tent, to stir you up in reminding [you],