7 And, in your godliness, brotherly affection, and, in your brotherly affection, love.

8 These things, unto you, belonging and abounding, neither idle nor unfruitful, constitute you, regarding the personal knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;

9 For, he to whom these things are not present, is, blind, seeing only what is near, having come, to forget, his purification from his old sins.