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2 Peter 1:5-7 "For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to your goodness, knowledge; and to your knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love." (NIV)

This is not just a grocery list of spiritual fruit to be added to your life. These traits are interrelated and logical in the progression by which these things are added to our lives. And they are part of what God's Spirit promises to produce in us as we draw close to him.

Here's an exercise for the week. Take some time now to think through why Peter would tell us to add goodness to faith? How would our evil desires seek to corrupt faith? How does adding goodness along with our faith help us in our pursuit of God? I've made a place for you to think them through below.

1. Add goodness to your faith
2. Add knowledge to your goodness
3. Add self-control to your knowledge
4. Add perseverance to your self-control
5. Add godliness to your perseverance
6. Add brotherly kindness to your godliness
7. Add love to your brotherly kindness