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.

in order that you may walk decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing.

I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall by no means fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light--

Only conduct yourselves worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

that you should walk worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit and increasing in the full knowledge of God;

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all manner of life,

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

If we claim that we have fellowship with Him, and we are walking in the darkness, we are lying, and are not practicing the truth.

But if we are walking in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

He who claims to abide in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

He who calls you is faithful, who also will do [this].

Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

and so that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,

even us whom He called, not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles?

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Therefore we also pray always concerning you that our God may count you worthy of [this] calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,

in order that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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,

to which He called you through our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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],

but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all manner of life,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's [own] possession, that you may proclaim the excellent virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

not rendering evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called for this purpose, that you may inherit a blessing.

But may the God of all grace, the [One] having called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little [while], may He Himself make you complete--He will establish, strengthen, [and] firmly ground [you].