And for this reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Join with your faith, virtue: think not that faith alone will save you without the practice of virtues and good works. By abstinence or temperance, is understood that virtue which helps to moderate the inordinate love of sensual pleasures, and to govern all disorderly passions and affections. (Witham)