For Elohim, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the majesty of Elohim in the face of Yahshua the Messiah.
Only exercise your citizenship as it becometh the good news of the Messiah: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the good news;
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Master Yahshua, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please Yahweh, so ye would abound more and more.
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in the Messiah Yahshua before the world began,
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
But the Elohim of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal honour by the Messiah Yahshua, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.
According as the power of Elohim hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and reverence, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to honour and virtue:
Which have borne witness of thy love before the assembly: whom if thou bring forward on their journey in a manner worthy of Elohim, thou shalt do well: