because it is written, Be you holy, for I am holy.

because you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain mode of life received by tradition from your fathers,

and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense to the disobedient, who stumble at the word because they are disobedient, to which stumbling they were also appointed.

To this, indeed, you have been called; because even Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his footsteps.