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.

2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,+ with sanctification by the spirit,+ for the purpose of being obedient and sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ:+

May undeserved kindness and peace be increased to you.