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

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth; to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.