Mutiplied Unto You

[2 Peter 1:2] Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of G-d, and of Y’Shua our L-d,
[5] And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
[6] And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience
godliness;
[7] And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of G-d and of Y’Shua our L-rd, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness. Through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises. Through these, you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world.
Why are we are willing to try almost anything except the knowledge of Him. We will trust in the schemes and plans of men instead of the knowledge of Him. We will try knowing ourselves instead of the knowledge of Him.
The Greek word knowledge doesn't refer to a casual acquaintance. It means an exact, complete, and thorough knowledge. How do we come to knowledge of Him? It comes as we learn of Him through His Word, through prayer, G-d does not meet us only in our "aloneness" but also in the fellowship of people of like mind. It is knowledge, but it is not mere intellectual understanding or perception. It is the knowledge that comes by experience - the experience G-d's people have of G-d Himself, as they communicate with Him in their own words, building intimacy.
For those who acknowledge Him in all their ways, He will direct their steps, His power, which no power can resist, because it is Divine-that which properly belongs to the infinite Godhead.
G-d by His own power hath bestowed on us every thing necessary for a happy life and godliness, having called us to the knowledge of Himself, by His own infinite goodness.
We are partakers of the divine nature, but once we are made spiritual sons and daughters, growth in the Believer’s life doesn't just happen to us. We are supposed to give all diligence to our walk with the L-rd and grow daily.
Each grace being assumed becomes the stepping-stone to the succeeding grace: and the latter in turn qualifies and completes the former. Faith leads the band; love brings up the rear and the fruits of faith specified are seven, the perfect number. The scope of the list demonstrates that G-d wants us to have a well-rounded Believers life, complete in every fashion. We can't be content with an incomplete Believers life.
Temperance - A proper and limited use of all earthly enjoyments, keeping every sense under proper restraints, and never permitting the animal part to subjugate the rational.
Patience - Bearing all trials and difficulties with an even mind, enduring in all, and persevering through all.
Godliness - Piety towards G-d; a deep, reverential, religious fear; not only worshipping G-d with every becoming outward act, but adoring, loving, and magnifying Him in the heart: a disposition indispensably necessary to salvation, but exceedingly rare among professors.
[Love of the brotherhood-the strongest attachment to Messiah's flock; accepting each one during the process of their growth. Religion is neither selfish nor insulated; where the love of G-d is, bigotry cannot exist. Narrow, selfish people, and people of a party, who scarcely have any hope of the salvation of those who do not believe as they believe, and who do not follow with them, have scarcely any religion; though in their own apprehension none is so truly orthodox or religious as themselves.
So charity completes the choir of graces in Col 3:14. In a traditional order, he who has love will exercise brotherly kindness; he who has brotherly kindness will feel godliness needful; the godly will mix nothing uncomplaining with his patience; to the patient, temperance is easy; the temperate weighs things well, and so has knowledge; knowledge guards against sudden impulse carrying away its virtue.
These beautiful qualities are not things that the L-rd simply pours into us as we passively receive. Instead, we are called to give all diligence to these things, working in partnership with G-d to add them.
[10] Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: