Redeemed by Blood, Born Again by Word: A Call to Holy Living

¹³ Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former 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, because I am holy.”

¹⁷ Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.

¹⁸ For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

²⁰ He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.

²¹ Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.

²² Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

²³ For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

²⁴ For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

²⁵ but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.