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

¹³ Therefore, as a means of spiritual preparation, tighten up the belt about your minds, keep perfectly calm, keep your hope on the spiritual blessing to be conferred upon you at the unveiling of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ As obedient children, stop molding your character by the evil desires you used to cherish when you did not know any better, ¹⁵ but in accordance with the Holy Being who has called you, you must prove to be holy too, ¹⁶ for the Scripture says: "You ought to be holy, because I am holy."

¹⁷ And if you address as Father, Him who judges everyone impartially in accordance with what he does, you must live reverently all your fleeting stay on earth, ¹⁸ because you know that you have not been ransomed with things that perish as silver or gold, from the futile way of living taught by your fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without a blemish or a blot, ²⁰ who was foreordained for it before the foundation of the world but was brought out to public view at the end of the ages, for the sake of you ²¹ who through Him trust in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory; so that your faith and hope may rest in God.

²² Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently, ²³ because you have been born anew, not from a germ that perishes but from one that does not perish, by the word of the living and everlasting God. ²⁴ For "All human life is just like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass dries up; the flowers drop off. ²⁵ But the word of the Lord lives on forever"; that is, the message of the good news which has been brought to you.