American Standard Version of 1901
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{Or, seeing that he both sealed us}who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
But we are not {Greek: of shrinking back.}of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the {Or, gaining}saving of the soul.