For this is the will of God
– your becoming holy-
that you abstain from sexual immorality,
that each of you to know how to master your own body
in holiness and honour,
not in passionate lust
just as the pagans
who do not know God
not to wrong or take advantage of your brother in this matter,
because the Lord is the Avenger about all these things,
as we also told you earlier and we emphatically warned you.
For God has not called us to impurity but to holiness.
Therefore the one who rejects (him)
is not rejecting humans
but God
who gives to you his Spirit, who is holy.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy,
For your mercy and for your truth’s sake. Amen