Be Holy

¹³Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep a clear head, and set your hope completely on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. ¹⁴As obedient children, do not be shaped by the desires that you once had in your ignorance. ¹⁵Instead, just as the one who called you is holy, be holy in every aspect of your life. ¹⁶For it is written, “You must be holy, because I am holy.”^£

¹⁷If you call “Father” the one who judges everyone impartially according to what he has done, you must live reverently as long as you are strangers here. ¹⁸For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you were ransomed from the worthless way of life handed down to you by your ancestors, ¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or defect. ²⁰On the one hand, he was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but on the other hand, he was revealed at the end of time for your sake. ²¹Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

Love One Another

²²Now that you have obeyed the truth^£ and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart. ²³For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that cannot perish—by the living and everlasting word of God.^£ 24For

    â€œAll human life^£ is like grass,

    and all its glory is like a flower in the grass.

    The grass dries up and the flower drops off,

²⁵    but the word of the Lord lasts forever.”^£

Now this word is the good news that was announced to you.

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