13Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, being completely sober, set your hope upon the grace that is being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.14As children of obedience, do not be conformed to the desires that once governed you in your ignorance,15but, as the one who called you is holy, become holy yourselves in all your conduct.16For it is written, 'You shall be holy, because I am holy.'17And if you call upon him as Father—the one who judges without partiality according to each person's work—live in reverent fear during the time of your sojourning.18You know that you were redeemed, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, from the futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,19but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish or spot.20He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but has now been revealed at the end of the times for your sake,21and through him you are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.22Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart.23You have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God,24For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass; the grass withers and the flower falls,25But the word of the Lord remains forever; and this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
Chapter 2
1Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all slanders,2Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,3If indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.