1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 - Kept faultlessly?

Does 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 have conditions?

1 Thessalonians 5:23: "Now may the God (of) peace Himself make you holy completely. And may your whole spirit and soul and body BE-KEPT faultlessly at the coming (of) our Lord Jesus Christ."

1 Thessalonians 5:24: "Faithful (is) the (One) calling you, Who also will-do (it)."

Conditions:

Paul wrote: "may your whole spirit and soul and body BE-KEPT faultlessly" (1 Thessalonians 5:23). 

The Greek verb for "BE-KEPT" (1 Thessalonians 5:23) is in the passive voice, which represents the subjects as being the recipients of the action. The next verse indicates Who will do this action to the recipients: "Faithful (is) the (One) calling you, Who also will-do (it)" (1 Thessalonians 5:24).

The Greek verb for "BE-KEPT" (1 Thessalonians 5:23) is in the optative mood, which expresses a wish or desire for an action to occur in which the completion of such can be subject to doubts. 

The doubts regarding the completion of this action would not come from the One who will do it, as it is written that this One is "Faithful" (1 Thessalonians 5:24), but it would come instead from the recipients of the action. This would suggest that this action would not be unconditionally completed in them.

Could it be possible that the recipients also have a responsibility in order to also have their "whole spirit and soul and body BE-KEPT faultlessly" (1 Thessalonians 5:23)? 

Paul wrote for example to Timothy: "BE-KEEPING YOURSELF pure" (1 Timothy 5:22). The Greek verb for "BE-KEEPING" (1 Timothy 5:22) is in the imperative mood, which expresses a command to the hearer to perform something by the order and authority of the one commanding. Paul did not use the indicative mood in the Greek, which would simply have been a statement of fact that would have described something merely happening. 

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