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Paul here tells the Thessalonian believers that their whole persons and, thus, their whole lives must be made holy before God. Their spirits, that is, the higher nature in man (his mind and that which relates to God); their souls, that is, their lower natures (emotions and the mind's connection to physical senses and desires); and even their bodies, though purely physical and mere "tents" that their immaterial part live in, must all be sanctified.