<p>1:8- see on 3 Jn. 11.</p><p><i>For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be neither idle nor unfruitful in the precise and correct knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ</i>- &quot;In the... knowledge&quot; is better &quot;unto the... knowledge&quot;. By living in the Spirit, and developing every aspect of the characteristics which comprise &quot;the Divine nature&quot;, we come to 'know Christ' in the sense of relationship with Him. And that point of mature relationship is &quot;love&quot;; and it is not a relationship for the sake of it, but like any good relationship, ours with Jesus has fruit, it motivates and inspires to action and activity, rather than being idle in our knowledge / relationship with the Lord Jesus. And there is an upward spiral in it all; if the fruits of the Spirit abound in us, then they in turn make us fruitful in our knowledge / relationship with our Lord Jesus. This is the secret to spiritual growth; and this is a window onto quite how the human Lord Jesus could be as morally perfect as God.</p>