"For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who [are] upon the face of the earth."

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

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

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

Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity."

But you [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

[then] the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself [His] own special people, zealous for good works.

The eyes of the LORD [are] on the righteous, And His ears [are open] to their cry.

As for me, I will call upon God, And the LORD shall save me.

Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, And He shall hear my voice.

When I cry out [to You,] Then my enemies will turn back; This I know, because God [is] for me.

"Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.

He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.

"You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.