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

Now may God our Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you.

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

So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.

You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe.

For we wanted to come to you (I, Paul, in fact tried again and again) but Satan thwarted us.

For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,

Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

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.

For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything.

Now may the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your spirit and soul and body be kept entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.