⁷ Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift^(A) as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.^{(B) 8} He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless^(C) on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.^{(D) 9} God is faithful,^(E) who has called you^(F) into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.^(G)

⁵ All this is evidence^(A) that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy^(B) of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. ⁶ God is just:^(C) He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you^{(D) 7} and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven^(E) in blazing fire^(F) with his powerful angels.^{(G) 8} He will punish^(H) those who do not know God^(I) and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.^{(J) 9} They will be punished with everlasting destruction^(K) and shut out from the presence of the Lord^(L) and from the glory of his might^{(M) 10} on the day^(N) he comes to be glorified^(O) in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.^(P)

⁶ In all this you greatly rejoice,^(A) though now for a little while^(B) you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.^{(C) 7} These have come so that the proven genuineness^(D) of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire^(E)—may result in praise, glory and honor^(F) when Jesus Christ is revealed.^(G)

Be Holy

¹³ Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober,^(A) set your hope^(B) on the grace to be brought to you^(C) when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.^{(D) 14} As obedient^(E) children, do not conform^(F) to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.^{(G) 15} But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;^{(H) 16} for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”^[a](I)