Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, 6and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, 7and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.8The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.

He is especially hard on those who follow their own twisted sexual desire, and who despise authority.

Lord God my Father,

Open my heart to see your glory and protect me from the ways of the world.

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen