Now God himself, our Father, and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you;

that every one of you should know how to procure for himself his own vessel in purity and honor,

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first;

And may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved whole, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.