and to virtue knowledge;

You can't have knowledge of God with out getting virtue first. You can't say "I'll just skip over this stepping stone." You can't say that "God hasn't told me to quit drinking, smoking, dipping, dancing, cussing, currousing......". He simply says in his word for you to add to your faith virtue.

Once you add virture, you can look back and see that you didn't need those things. Now you have the knowledge!

2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

You can't have it both ways. You can't say to yourself "that it's ok to allow this or that, because God doesn't care". He does care.

1 Pet 5:7-9 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

You can't say in your heart that "I can have it both ways."

Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
James 1:7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

So how are you doing so far? Are you halted in the river standing on a stone and not wanting to go on, or are you ready to continue?