To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;
Some are of the opinion that the action of calling is here put for eternal life, the end of that calling. But it is more natural to interpret it of the gospel, by which men are called to lay hold on eternal life; and so the meaning will be, May our God, who inspects your actions, and gospel, whereby ye will be judged by him worthy of it (426).