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

¹³ Brace up your minds, then, keep cool, and put your hope for good and all in the grace that is coming to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance; ¹⁵ as He who called you is holy, so you must be holy too in all your conduct ??16 for it is written, You shall be holy because I am holy.

¹⁷ And as you call upon a Father who judges everyone impartially by what he has done, be reverent in your conduct while you sojourn here below; ¹⁸ you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past, ¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, a lamb unblemished and unstained. ²⁰ He was predestined before the foundation of the world and has appeared at the end of the ages for your sake; ²¹ it is by him that you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; and thus your faith means hope in God.

²² Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily. ²³ You are born anew of immortal, not of mortal seed, by the living, lasting word of God; ²⁴ for All flesh is like the grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass: the grass withers and the flower fades, ²⁵ but the word of the Lord lasts for ever ??and that is the word of the gospel for you.