1 13 You must therefore be mentally stripped for action, perfectly self-controlled. Fix your hopes on the gift of grace which is to be yours when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1 14 As obedient children, do not let your characters be shaped any longer by the desires you cherished in your days of ignorance. 1 15 The One who called you is holy; like him, be holy in all your behaviour, 1 16 [ Lv.11.44. ] because Scripture says, 'You shall be holy, for I am holy.' 1 17 If you say 'our Father' to the One who judges every man impartially on the record of his deeds, you must stand in awe of him while you live out your time on earth. 1 18 Well you know that it was no perishable stuff, like gold or silver, that bought your freedom from the empty folly of your traditional ways. 1 19 The price was paid in precious blood, as it were of a lamb without mark or blemish-the blood of Christ. 1 20 Predestined before the foundation of the world, he was made manifest in this last period of time for your sake. 1 21 Through him you have come to trust in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, and so your faith and hope are fixed on God.
1 22 Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your souls until you feel sincere affection towards your brother Christians, love one another whole-heartedly with all your strength. 1 23 You have been born anew, not of mortal parentage but of immortal, through the living and enduring word of God. Or: through the word of the living and enduring God. 1 24 [ Is.40.6-8. ] For (as Scripture says)