The Father has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, God’s own purchased people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.
That I may may actually be found and known as in Him.
Possessing that genuine righteousness which comes through faith in Christ.
For His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish, in order that I may win Christ.
It is God Who is at work in you both to will and do His good pleasure
Do all things without grumbling and faultfinding and comlaining and questioning and doubting, that you may show yourselves to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and wicked generation among whom you are seen as bright lights in the world.
Therefore God has highly exalted Him and has freely bestowed on Him the Name above every name, That at the Name of Jesus every knee must bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
And every tongue confess and acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of the Father.
Having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness.
For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be one with Him in sharing His resurrection.