Be Holy

13 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed. 14 As children of obedience, do not conform yourselves to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, you also must be holy in all your conduct, 16 for it is written, “[fn]Be holy, because I am holy.”

17 If you call on the Father who judges without partiality according to each person's work, pass the time of your sojourn in reverent fear. 18 For you know that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot. 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the [fn]last times for your sake. 21 Through him you [fn]believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

22 Since you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth [fn]through the Spirit, resulting in genuine brotherly love, love one another deeply, from [fn]a pure heart. 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the [fn]word of God that lives and abides forever. 24 For,

“All flesh is like grass,

and all [fn]the glory of man is like a flower of grass.

The grass withers,

and [fn]its flower falls,

25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.”

This word is the good news that was preached to you.