For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.

And it is by this will that we have been sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish in his sight.

for we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God predestined us to make our daily way of life.

Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

But for you, brothers, whom the Lord loves, I ought to give thanks to God continually, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth. For this he called you through my gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it is sanctified by the Word of God and by prayer.