May the God of peace ʜɪᴍꜱᴇʟꜰ sanctify y’all completely. May y’all’s whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved siblings, y’all must stand firm, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because y’all know that y’all’s labor in the Lord is not in vain.
so that y’all may become blameless and harmless, “children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation,” among whom you shine as lights in the world,
so Christ also was offered once to bear the sins of many, and he will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
that the proof of y’all’s faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
speaking this way and of these things in all his letters. Some things in them are difficult to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort, as they do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.