12. Let us, then, who were the first to hope in Christ, praise God's glory!
13. And you also became God's people when you heard the true message, the Good News that brought you salvation. You believed in Christ, and God put his stamp of ownership on you by giving you the Holy Spirit he had promised.
14. The Spirit is the guarantee that we shall receive what God has promised his people, and this assures us that God will give complete freedom to those who are his. Let us praise his glory!
15. For this reason, ever since I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God's people,
16. I have not stopped giving thanks to God for you. I remember you in my prayers
17. and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you, so that you will know him.