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-\v 13 Our fellow believers, you whom our Lord Jesus loves, we should always thank God for you. We should do this because he chose you to be among the first people to believe in the truth about Jesus, among the first people that God would save, and to set you apart for himself by means of his Spirit.
+\v 13 Our fellow believers, you whom our Lord Jesus loves, we should always thank God for you. We should do this because God chose you to be among the first people that he would save, as a result of God setting you apart for himself by means of his Spirit and your believing the true message about Jesus.
 \v 14 We thank God that he chose you as a result of our proclaiming the message about Christ to you so that God might honor you in some of the same ways that he honors our Lord Jesus Christ.
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 \v 15 So, our fellow believers, continue to strongly believe in Christ. Continue believing the true things that we have taught you when we spoke to you and wrote a letter to you.