1 THESSALONIANS 5:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ — the prayer-wish (optative) invokes total sanctification (hagiazō) across the entire human person: spirit, soul, body. The telos is eschatological: standing 'blameless' (amomos) at the parousia. The 'God of peace' (theos eirēnēs) is the source of all transformation.
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