1st Thessalonians3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
yes the holy ones or as you say the saints ,and there are 144,000 of them , and these ones in 1 thessalonians 4;1 carry on walking in love ...................
(Colossians 1:10) in order to walk worthily of Jehovah to the end of fully pleasing [him] as YOU go on bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the accurate knowledge of God,.....................yes right up to the PRESENCE of Jesus christ . some bibles say COMING but the word there is PAROUSIA or presence , but that is for another time , and another thread