¹⁴ As children of obedience, don’t be squashed into the shape of the passions you used to indulge when you were still in ignorance. ¹⁵ Rather, just as the one who called you is holy, so be holy yourselves, in every aspect of behavior. ¹⁶ It is written, you see, “Be holy, for I am holy.”

¹⁴ Follow after peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one can see the Lord.

Final blessings and charge

²³ Now may the God of peace himself make you completely holy. May your complete spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

⁶ anyone who says, “I abide in him,” ought to behave in the same way that he behaved.