And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
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Faith unites the weak believer to Christ, as really as it does the strong one, and purifies the heart of one as truly as of another; and every sincere believer is by his faith justified in the sight of God. Faith worketh godliness, and produces effects which no other grace in the soul can do.
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This thought runs through 2 Peter 1:1-5.