Man is not the highest good, God is. Man is not the purpose of creation, God is. Man is not even the end or goal of salvation, but the glory of God is. That needs emphasis today. In the churches today there is a rampant religious humanism that makes salvation center about man and his happiness.
Religion is there for whatever a man can get out of it.
Thus we must see nest that God is holy in salvation. He maintain His holiness when He saves unto Himself a church. The love of God does not operate at the expense of holiness, but it reached us in the way of His holiness. The first chapter of I Peter abounds in references to our salvation. We have been redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, Who is the Lamb without spot or blemish.