24 Now unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish in exceeding joy, 25 to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and power, before all time, and now, and for evermore. Amen.

No more inspiring ascription of praise can be found in the General Epistles, nor one with which these epistles more fittingly may conclude. The thought has been led through dark scenes of perplexity and suffering, of apostasy and doom; but now the clouds break away, and the eyes gaze in rapture on the face of a loving God, on the glory of a coming Christ. The readers had been told to "keep" themselves in the love of God; now they are assured that God will keep them; in spite of pitfalls and snares, he "is able to guard you from stumbling"; regardless of moral perils and present sorrows, he will "set you before the presence of his glory," at the appearing of Christ, "without blemish" and in exultant "joy." To this one God our Saviour, as there ever has been, so may there be now and forevermore, "glory, majesty, dominion and power," "through Jesus Christ our Lord." "Amen."