For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

神召我们，本不是要我们沾染污秽，乃是要我们成为圣洁。

上帝召我们本不是要我们沾染污秽，而是要我们圣洁。

神召我们本不是要我们沾染污秽，而是要我们圣洁。

因为上帝呼召我们不是要我们沾染污秽，而是要我们圣洁。

神呼召我们，不是要我们沾染污秽，而是要我们圣洁。

要知道，神召唤我们，不是要我们沾染污秽，而是要我们分别为圣。

神召我們，本不是要我們沾染污穢，乃是要我們成為聖潔。

上帝召我們本不是要我們沾染污穢，而是要我們聖潔。

神召我們本不是要我們沾染污穢，而是要我們聖潔。

因為上帝呼召我們不是要我們沾染污穢，而是要我們聖潔。

神呼召我們，不是要我們沾染污穢，而是要我們聖潔。

上帝並不是召我們去沾染污穢，乃是召我們於聖化的。

要知道，神召喚我們，不是要我們沾染汙穢，而是要我們分別為聖。

蓋上帝召我、非致污、乃成聖、

上帝命我為潔淨、毋為邪穢、

蓋天主召我、非為污穢、乃為聖潔、

蓋天主之召吾人、非欲吾人淪於邪污、乃欲吾人進於聖潔。

For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.

That’s because God chose us to live pure lives. He wants us to be holy.

For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.

God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives.

For God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness.

For God has not called us for impurity, but in sanctification.

For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

For God has not called us to impurity but to sanctification.

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,

For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.

especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.He committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth.

For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,and maintain good conduct among the non- Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.

He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct,for it is written,“ You shall be holy, because I am holy.”

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

“ Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them,‘ You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,

to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may do them.

But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.He called you to this salvation through our gospel, so that you may possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.