For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification, - that ye should abstain from unchastity,

By which will, we have been made holy, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.

According as he made choice of us, in him, before the founding of a world, that we might be holy and blameless in his presence; in love,

His, in fact we are - his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus upon a footing of good works, which God prepared beforehand, that, therein, we might walk.

Being persuaded of this very thing - that, he who hath begun in you a good work, will perfect it, until the day of Jesus Christ;

But, we, are bound to give thanks unto God continually concerning you, brethren beloved by the Lord, for that God chose you, from the beginning, unto salvation, in sanctification of spirit and belief of truth, - Unto which he called you, through means of our glad-message, unto an acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it is hallowed by the word of God and intercession,