1 Peter 1:13-25 - Be Holy In All Your Conduct

¹³ Therefore, prepare your minds for action, and with perfect calmness fix your hopes on the mercy that you are to experience when Jesus Christ is revealed. ¹⁴ Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant, ¹⁵ but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶ for the Scripture says, "You must be holy, Because I am holy."

¹⁷ And if you address him as Father who judges everyone impartially by what he does, you must live reverently all the time you stay here, ¹⁸ for you know that you have not been ransomed with anything perishable like silver or gold, from the futile way of living in which you were brought up, ¹⁹ but with precious blood, like that of an unblemished, spotless lamb, the blood of Christ, ²⁰ who was predestined for this before the foundation of the world, but was revealed only at the end of the ages, ²¹ for the sake of you who through him trust in God, who raised him from the dead and showed him honor; and so your faith and hope rest on God.

²² Now that by obeying the truth you have purified your souls for sincere love of the brotherhood, you must love one another intensely and heartily, ²³ for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God. ²⁴ For "All flesh is like grass, And all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And the flower fades, ²⁵ But the word of the Lord will last forever," that is, the good news that has been brought to you.