1 Thessalonians 5

Thank you, Father, that you, the God of Peace, will, yourself, sanctify me completely; my whole spirit, soul, and body will be preserved blameless at the coming of my Lord Jesus Christ. You, Father, are faithful, and you will do all this.

For you, Father, did not appoint me for your wrath, but you determined me to obtain salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, and your Messiah.

Therefore, I no longer live in darkness. I am a son of light, your child, a child of the day. I do not sleep in my faith as some do, instead I watch, and I am sober. I put on the breast plate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the truth of your sweet salvation, my eternal, living hope.