25 Husbands, continue loving your wives,+ just as the Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it,+26 in order that he might sanctify it, cleansing it with the bath of water by means of the word,+
23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. And may the spirit and soul and body of you brothers, sound in every respect, be preserved blameless at the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ.+
13 However, we are obligated always to thank God for you, brothers loved by Jehovah, because from the beginning God selected you+ for salvation by sanctifying you+ with his spirit and by your faith in the truth.
22 Now that you have purified yourselves* by your obedience to the truth with unhypocritical brotherly affection+ as the result, love one another intensely from the heart.+