That you may fear the Lord your God, and keep all His statutes, and His commandments, which I command you today, you, and your sons, and your sons' sons, all the days of your life, that you may live many days.

and He gave them the lands of the heathen; and they inherited the labors of the people;

that they might keep His ordinances, and diligently seek His law.

For this is My covenant which I will make with the house of Israel: after those days, says the Lord, I will surely put My laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts. And I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.

And no more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.

And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear Me continually, and [that] for good to them and their children after them.

And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put My fear into their heart, that they may not depart from Me.

And I will take you out from the nations, and will gather you out of all the lands, and will bring you into your own land;

And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.

And she shall bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He shall save His people from their sins."

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love,

For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

and that you put on the new man which was created in the likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Finally then, brothers, we request of you and exhort [you] in the Lord Jesus, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you should abound more.

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

But we are obligated to give thanks to God always for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

who having saved us, and having 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 time [itself],

For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men,

looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves [after] the former lusts, [as you did in] your ignorance;

because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."

through which have been given to us precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through these we may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

and with knowledge self-control, and with self-control perseverance, and with perseverance godliness,

For if these things belong to you and are increasing, it makes you neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.