13 So take this seriously and get your minds prepared, putting your full hope in the grace that’ll be brought to you by Yeshua the messiah being revealed. 14 As people who want to obey, don’t conform to your earlier desires that came from your ignorance, 15 but just as God who called you is holy, your yourselves need to be holy in all your conduct, 16 [ref]because it’s been written that ‘you’ll be holy people because I am holy.’

17 And since you call on the father who impartially judges each person according to their actions, continue to obey him even as you live as foreigners, 18 knowing that when you were in slavery due to your poor conduct that you inherited from your ancestors, you weren’t bought out of that by payment of things that decay like silver or gold, 19 but by the precious blood of the messiah—the unblemished and spotless lamb. 20 He’d been known before the world was created, yet he was only recently revealed for the sake of you chosen people 21 who believe in God through him. God was the one who raised him from the dead and honoured him, so that your faith and hope would be in God.

22 Since your souls have been purified by obeying the truth, now you should love each other from your hearts and without hypocrisy. 23 You’ve been born again, not growing from some physical thing that’ll decay, but from indestructible material—God’s message that’s alive and lives on, 24 because it’s written:[ref]

‘All flesh is like grass,

and the beauty of our bodies like its flower.

The grass will wither and its flower will drop,

25 but Yahweh’s message will last till the end of the age.’

And that’s the good message that’s been preached to you chosen people.

2 So then, get rid of all malice and deceit, and hypocrisy and envy, and slandering others. 2 Just like newborn babies long for pure milk so they’ll grow, you should cultivate a thirst for what’ll help you grow as people who are rescued, 3 [ref]since you’ve tasted that Yahweh is good.