For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [that] you abstain from sexual immorality;

by which will we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, [that] we should be holy and blameless before him in love,

For we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we may walk in them.

convinced of this same [thing], that the one who began a good work in you will finish [it] until the day of Christ Jesus,

But we ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers [dearly] loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you [as] first fruits for salvation by the sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth, for which [purpose] he called you through our gospel for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.