[1:13] Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
[1:14] As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
[1:15] but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
[1:16] since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
[1:17] And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
[1:18] knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
[1:19] but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
[1:20] He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you
[1:21] who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
[1:22] Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
[1:23] since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
[1:24] for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
[1:25] but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.