according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be multiplied to y’all.
But we should always give thanks to God for y’all, siblings beloved by the Lord, because God chose y’all from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth.
but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the ethnic groups, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
Such were some of y’all. But y’all were washed, y’all were sanctified, y’all were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
let’s draw near with a sincere heart in the full assurance that comes from faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water.
For y’all’s obedience has become known to all, and therefore I rejoice over y’all. But I want y’all to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.
For you are a holy people to YHWH your God. YHWH your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
But y’all are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy ethnic group, a people of God’s own possession, that y’all may proclaim the virtues of ʜɪᴍ who called y’all out of darkness into ʜɪꜱ marvelous light.
that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the gospel of God, so that the offering up of the ethnic groups might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat; for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, y’all must clothe yourselves* with compassionate affection, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
We tear down arguments and every lofty thing that is elevated against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
Now I am entrusting y’all to God and to the word of ʜɪꜱ grace, which is able to build y’all up and to give y’all an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,
And he will send out his angels with a great trumpet call, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to YHWH, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
He is to slaughter the bull before YHWH. Aaron’s sons, the priests, are to present the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.