But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people unto conquest; in order that you may proclaim the virtues of the one having called you out of darkness unto his own marvelous light:

But the God of all grace, the one having called you into his own eternal glory in Christ, will himself make you perfect, having suffered a little while, will establish you, will strengthen you, will settle you.

But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose.

whom he called, even us, not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles:

but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

and testifying, that you walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

the one having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the eternal times,

As His divine power having given unto us all things which appertain to life and godliness, through the perfect knowledge of the one having called us to his own glory and virtue:

Is

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; The holy, true one, the one having the key of David, the one opening, and no one shall shut; and the one shutting, and no one shall open; says these things.

And the four living creatures having six wings, one opposite one of them; filled with eyes without and within; and they cease not day and night, saying; Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Omnipotent, who was, and who is, and who is the one coming.

And they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell upon the earth?

So

Therefore ye shall be perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

to grant unto us, having been delivered out of the hand of our enemies, to serve Him without fear,

Therefore having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all the filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Therefore be ye imitators of God, as beloved children;

Only live worthily of the gospel of Christ: in order that, whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I hear those things concerning you, that you are standing in one spirit, with one soul contending for the faith of the gospel;

in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication;

For the grace of God, that brings salvation to all men, has appeared,

The word is faithful, and I wish you to be established concerning these things, in order that those having believed in God may think to excel in good works. These things are beautiful and useful to the people:

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification, without which no one shall see the Lord:

through which precious and greatest promises have been given unto us; that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world through lust.

In

having your deportment beautiful among the Gentiles: in order that in whatsoever they calumniate you as evil doers, seeing from your beautiful works, they may glorify God in the day of his visitation.

having a good conscience, in order that, in whatsoever you are calumniated, those traducing your good deportment in Christ may be ashamed.

For our citizenship is in the heavens; whence we are indeed looking for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Let no one look with contempt upon your youth; but be you an example of the faithful, in word, in deportment, in divine love, in faith, in purity.

Let your deportment be free from covetousness; being content with present things: for he said, I will not, I will not, leave you, neither do I ever forsake you;

Who is wise and instructed among you? Let him show forth out of beautiful conduct his works in meekness of wisdom.

Then all these things being dissolved, what kind of people does it behoove you to be in holy deportment and godliness,

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in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

Therefore be ye merciful, as your Father is indeed merciful.