You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you;

And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.

And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.