BE HOLY

1 Peter 1:13-24

13 THEREFORE PREPARE YOU MINDS FOR ACTION;

BE SELF-CONTROLLED;

SET YOUR HOPE FULL ON THE GRACE

TO BE GIVEN YOU WHEN JESUS CHRIST IS REVEALED.

14 As Obedient Children,

DO NOT CONFORM TO THE EVIL DESIRES YOU HAD

WHEN YOU LIVED IGNORANCE.

15 BUT JUST AS HE WHO CALLED YOU IS HOLY,

SO BE HOLY IN ALL YOU DO;

16 FOR IT IS WRITTEN:

'BE HOLY, AS I AM HOLY.'

17 Since you call on a Father

Who Judges each man's Work impartially,

LIVE YOUR LIVES AS STRANGERS HERE IN REVERENT FEAR.

18 For you know that it was not with perishable things

Such as silver of gold

THAT YOU WERE REDEEMED

FROM THE EMPTY WAY OF LIFE

HANDED DOWN TO YOU FROM YOUR FOREFATHERS,

19 BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST,

A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH OR DEFECT.

20 HE WAS CHOSEN BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD,

BUT WAS REVEALED IN THESE LAST TIMES

FOR YOUR SAKE.

21 THROUGH HIM YOU BELIEVE IN GOD

AND GLORIFY HIM,

AND SO YOUR FAITH AND HOPE ARE IN GOD.

22 NOW YOU HAVE PURIFIED YOURSELVES

BY OBEYING THE TRUTH

SO THAT YOU HAVE SINCERE LOVE FOR YOUR BROTHERS,

LOVE ONE ANOTHER DEEPLY

FROM THE HEART.

23 FOR YOU HAVE BEEN BORN AGAIN,

NOT OF PERISHABLE SEED, BUT IMPERISHABLE,

THROUGH THE LIVING AND ENDURING WORD OF GOD.

24 For, 'All men are like grass

And all their glory is like the flowers of the field;

The grass withers and the flowers fall,

But the Word of the Lord stands forever.'

And this is the Word that was Preached to you.

(1 Peter 1:13-24)