The document discusses the importance of various spiritual qualities such as faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, patience, godliness, brotherly love, and agape love as a means to lead a fruitful Christian life. It emphasizes that these qualities should be nurtured and integrated, reflecting biblical teachings from various scriptures. Additionally, it warns against the dangers of relying solely on grace without the accompanying virtues and stresses moral righteousness in daily life.

1. Being Productive
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with
knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness
with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
(2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV)

2. Faith
Virtue
Knowledge
Self
Control
Patience
Godliness
Philadelphia
Brotherly
Love /
Kindness
Agape
Love

3. "ALL" Qualities
• For if these qualities
are yours and are
increasing, they
keep you from being
ineffective or unfruitful
in the knowledge of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
(2 Peter 1:8 ESV)
• The order is not a
strict order, have ALL

4. Faith needs action
• Belief that leads to Baptism.
Then?
• By faith Moses, when he was
come to years, refused to be
called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter; Choosing rather to
suffer affliction with the people of
God, than to enjoy the pleasures
of sin for a season; Esteeming the
reproach of Christ greater riches
than the treasures in Egypt: for he
had respect unto the recompence
of the reward. (Hebrews 11:24-26
KJV)
Faith

5. Virtue
• Morality / Righteousness
• Good works
• Who shall ascend the hill
of the LORD? And who
shall stand in his holy
place? He who has
clean hands and a
pure heart, who does
not lift up his soul to what
is false and does not
swear deceitfully.(Psalms
24:3-4 ESV)

6. Virtue - Stubborn to do the right thing!
Faith
Virtue
• What is your Salvation
Equation
– Salvation = Virtue + Grace
– Salvation = Your Will +
Grace
– Danger
• Do not substitute virtue /
morality / righteousness with
Grace

7. Knowledge - To discern right from wrong
• My son, be attentive
to my wisdom; incline
your ear to my
understanding, that
you may keep
discretion, and
your lips may guard
knowledge.
(Proverbs 5:1-2 ESV)
– The righteous considereth the
cause of the poor: but the
wicked regardeth not to know it.
– (Proverbs 29:7 KJV)

8. Knowledge to reject wrong in Practical day to day
stuff
• for everyone who lives on
milk is unskilled in
the word of
righteousness, since he is
a child. But solid food is
for the mature, for those
who have their powers of
discernment trained by
constant practice to
distinguish good
from evil.
• (Hebrews 5:13-14 ESV)
Faith
Virtue
Knowledge

9. Self Control - Exercise Will Power
• After some days Felix
came with his wife
Drusilla, who was Jewish,
and he sent for Paul and
heard him speak about
faith in Christ Jesus. And
as he reasoned about
righteousness and self-
control and the coming
judgment, Felix was
alarmed and said, "Go
away for the present.
When I get an opportunity
I will summon you."
• (Acts 24:24-25 ESV)

10. Self Control
• Do you not know that in a race all the
runners run, but only one receives the
prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every
athlete exercises self-control in all things.
They do it to receive a perishable wreath,
but we an imperishable. So I do not run
aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the
air. But I discipline my body and keep it
under control, lest after preaching to
others I myself should be disqualified. (1
Corinthians 9:24-27 ESV)
• Now the works of the flesh are evident:
sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits
of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like
these. I warn you, as I warned you before,
that those who do such things will not
inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians
5:19-21 ESV)
Faith
Virtue
Knowledge
Self
Control
DonotgetDisqualified!FallenfromGrace

11. Patience
• As for that in the good soil, they are those who,
hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and
good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
• (Luke 8:15 ESV)

12. Patience = Endurance - How long?
• Therefore we ourselves boast
about you in the churches of God
for your steadfastness and faith in
all your persecutions and in the
afflictions that you are enduring.
This is evidence of the righteous
judgment of God, that you may be
considered worthy of the kingdom
of God, for which you are also
suffering-- (2 Thessalonians 1:4-5
ESV)
• The one who conquers and who
keeps my works until the end, to
him I will give authority over the
nations, (Revelation 2:26 ESV)
Faith
Virtue
Knowledge
Self
Control
Patience

13. Godliness / Holiness
• For the love of money is a
root of all kinds of evils. It
is through this craving
that some have wandered
away from the faith and
pierced themselves with
many pangs.
• But as for you, O man of
God, flee these things.
Pursue righteousness,
godliness, faith, love,
steadfastness,
gentleness.
• (1 Timothy 6:10-11 ESV)

14. Godliness with Contentment
• Now there is great gain in
godliness with
contentment, for we
brought nothing into the
world, and we cannot
take anything out of the
world. But if we have food
and clothing, with these
we will be content.
• (1 Timothy 6:6-8 ESV)
Faith
Virtue
Knowledge
Self
Control
Patience
Godliness

15. Philadelphia - Brother Love / Affection
Faith
Virtue
Knowledge
Self
Control
Patience
Godliness
Philadelphia
Brotherly
Love /
Kindness

16. Agape - The ultimate spiritual level
"God is Love"
• By this all people will know that you
are my disciples, if you have love for
one another." (John 13:35 ESV)
• Love does no wrong to a neighbor;
therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
(Romans 13:10 ESV)
• In this the love of God was made
manifest among us, that God sent his
only Son into the world, so that we
might live through him. (1 John 4:9
ESV)
• Above all, keep loving one another
earnestly, since love covers a
multitude of sins. (1 Peter 4:8 ESV)
• For this is the love of God, that we
keep his commandments. And his
commandments are not burdensome.
(1 John 5:3 ESV)
Let all that you do be done in love.
(1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV)
Agape
Love