For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

He who calls you is trustworthy, and he will in fact do this.

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.

I call on you solemnly in the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.