Here is what we are to add. The first being moral excellence which springs out of faith. Faith is a gift of God given to us at salvation. We are made alive by the Spirit, He is like the wind who comes and regenerates those whom the Father has chosen. We are made alive and just like the wind is not seen so we will not see the second death. Our faith is in Chirst. He is the object of our faith. The more we mortify the deeds of the flesh by the Spirit and the word the more we will focus on the person of Christ. THe more we understand who Christ is and what He has done the greater our faith in Him will be. That will be the reason we live a moral life, knowing that we cannot keep the ten commandments in ourselves we go to Christ when we fall short and realize that He kept them perfectly. We understand that we could never be righteous in ourselves , because when we see the law we are convinced that we fall short of the standard, when we rest in Christ work we get better.
The knowledge we have when we get better is from a spiritual knowledge. It is a divine light. It is from our source who is Christ, who reveals to us His will by making us rejoice in Him and the truth. We rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, that is the glory of Christ, and in rejoicing in Him we begin to taste that His truth is more than just an intellectual stimulus but it is a pleasurable desire to glorify Him and it comes from the knowledge we receive from the word and the Spirit.
The more divine light that we get in our understanding as a result of resting in Christ the more self control we will have. Because we will be controlled more and more by the Spirit. Be not drunk with wine but be filled with the Spirit. The s5.  Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,
6.  and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,
7.  and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
8.  For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9.  For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.
10.  Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; Spirit will cause us to walk in His light by convicting us of sin and by all of the graces we receive from Him in the knowledge we get as a result of resting in Christ work alone. THe more grace we receive the more we are going to be self controlled. The less we will be guilty, the more our inward parts will come in line with our outward actions. There will be less hypocrisy as a result of us living in grace and not guilt. This will produce in us a profound sense of the greatness of God. We will live in the reverence for God because we will be more and more inclined to seek Him and understand His attributes. The more we focus on the greatness of God the more godliness will be evident. Then we will love others. This is the end, that is being others centered. Giving to the pour, helping the little ones, being available to help our brothers. It will be a natural flow out of our election. Our election will become so real to us that we will begin to rejoice in one sheep being added. Our sight will not be carnal but spiritual and we will know who God is and we will see God, we will have a greater spiritual sense of sight and touch and taste and feel. The Holy Spirit knows us better than we know ourselves. That is he prays on our behalf with words that cannot be expressed. It is not the Spirit who is not know to us by His working in us but it is us who do not understand the Holy Spirits work in us. We are so blind to His speaking to us and what that grace we have as a result of His working in us. Because we do not think spiritually, we tend to think of Him as a force because of our sin and our lack of trust in His work in us by grace , and we do not enjoy the fellowship wit h Him as our comforter that we could if  we understood His work in us more and if we were more in tune with our inability and His ability to perform. Our faith in ourselves hinders us from experiencing fellowship with Him because we fail to place our trust in Christ work. The Holy Spirit lust for control in us. He desires to inflame our desires for Christ. He puts in us a joy that is beyond the circumstances. He communicates to us by gracing us with these pleasures. We are as it were inculcated in the God head, having the work of the Trinity securing us a peace that is supernatural, and the Holy Spirit works to bring us into this glory through the work of Christ on our behalf. We are caught between the pain of being in this world and the experience of fellowship with the Father , Son and Spirit, in a very human paradigm. There is a sense in which what we experience on the inside from our deli-ma in the world affecting us and the work of the Spirit renewing us in each of the deli-mas and in each of the inward experiences that grows our faith in a personal enlightened way. We look at the ugliness we possess and we are overcome with the Spirits lusting in granting us grace that drives us into the heavenlies. This process is such a singular path that we have no human goodness to elevate our intellectual goodness, but we are cast on Christ in a very humbling way, and yet in such a fellowship with the Father through the Spirit that out of that tension we long for heaven when all the tension will be eradicated. AR