你們蒙揀選是按照父上帝預先定好的旨意，

藉著聖靈得以聖潔，好順服耶穌基督，並靠祂的血得到潔淨。

彼得前書1:2

God the Father planned long ago to choose you by making you his holy people.

You were chosen by God the Father in his wisdom, made holy by the Spirit,

so that you might obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood.

1 Peter 1:2