1 Peter 1:13-25 ▼

13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be wide awake, and hope for the joy that is coming to you at the revelation of our LORD Jesus Christ;

14 Like obedient children, not partakers again in those sinful desires for which you once lusted in your ignorance:

15 But be you holy in all your conduct, as he who has called you is holy;

16 Because it is written, Be you holy, even as I am holy.

17 And if you call on the Father, who is impartial and who judges every man according to his works, conduct yourselves reverently during the time of your sojourning here:

18 Knowing that you have not been redeemed from your empty works which you have received from your fathers by corruptible silver and gold;

19 But with the precious blood of the Lamb without blemish and without spot which is Christ:

20 Who verily was foreordained for this very purpose, before the foundation of the world, and was manifest in these last times, for your sakes,

21 Who by him do believe in God, who raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might rest on God.

22 Let your souls be sanctified by obedience to the truth, and be filled with sincere love, so that you may love one another with pure and perfect hearts:

23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.

24 For all flesh is as grass, and all its glory is as the flower of the field. The grass withers and the flower fades away:

25 But the word of our God endures for ever. And this is the very word which has been preached to you.