May the God who gives us peace make you holy in every way and keep your whole being---spirit, soul, and body---free from every fault at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Who are you to judge the servants of someone else? It is their own Master who will decide whether they succeed or fail. And they will succeed, because the Lord is able to make them succeed.

Let us give glory to God! He is able to make you stand firm in your faith, according to the Good News I preach about Jesus Christ and according to the revelation of the secret truth which was hidden for long ages in the past.

He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be faultless on the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

so that you will be able to choose what is best. Then you will be free from all impurity and blame on the Day of Christ.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and in his grace gave us unfailing courage and a firm hope,

encourage you and strengthen you to always do and say what is good.

But after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who calls you to share his eternal glory in union with Christ, will himself perfect you and give you firmness, strength, and a sure foundation.

If our conscience condemns us, we know that God is greater than our conscience and that he knows everything.

And so, my dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have courage in God's presence.

in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty---pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection.

But now, by means of the physical death of his Son, God has made you his friends, in order to bring you, holy, pure, and faultless, into his presence.

If our conscience condemns us, we know that God is greater than our conscience and that he knows everything.

And so, my dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have courage in God's presence.

To him who is able to keep you from falling and to bring you faultless and joyful before his glorious presence---

After all, it is you---you, no less than others!---who are our hope, our joy, and our reason for boasting of our victory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes.

W_ hat we are teaching you now is the Lord's teaching: we who are alive on the day the Lord comes will not go ahead of those who have died.

May the God who gives us peace make you holy in every way and keep your whole being---spirit, soul, and body---free from every fault at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

that you have not failed to receive a single blessing, as you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.

But each one will be raised in proper order: Christ, first of all; then, at the time of his coming, those who belong to him.

Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to be with him: I beg you, my friends,

The LORD came from Mount Sinai; he rose like the sun over Edom and shone on his people from Mount Paran. Ten thousand angels were with him, a flaming fire at his right hand.

You will escape through this valley that divides the mountain in two. You will flee as your ancestors did when the earthquake struck in the time of King Uzziah of Judah. The LORD my God will come, bringing all the angels with him.

when he comes on that Day to receive glory from all his people and honor from all who believe. You too will be among them, because you have believed the message that we told you.

It was Enoch, the seventh direct descendant from Adam, who long ago prophesied this about them: "The Lord will come with many thousands of his holy angels