For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, (even the word) of God, ye accepted (it) not (as) the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,