For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
Faith alone is naked and empty without virtue, knowledge, patience, and love as its inseparable companions. The work of putting off corruption demands not slow carefulness but vigorous, manifest exertion; strive that these graces may adorn your faith, not in a chain of cause and effect, but each connected to the rest.
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You have obtained precious faith already, yet you must not rest there as if perfection were reached. Without all diligence you gain no ground in holiness; the slothful make nothing of religion. Strive, or you will not enter in at the strait gate.
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Commenting on 2 Peter 1:5-11
Faith is the basis and foundation, but it must not stand alone; virtue and good works follow it so that faith may appear true and genuine. Without common justice done to men, claims to faith in Christ are of little account; let virtue manifest what your faith actually is.
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