13Therefore, with your minds girded up, being completely sober, set your hope fully on the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.14as children of obedience, not being conformed to the former desires in your ignorance,15but according to the one who called you, holy, also yourselves become holy in all your conduct,16because it is written, "You will be holy, because I am holy."17And if you call on the Father, the one who judges without partiality according to each one's work, conduct yourselves during the time of your sojourning in fear.18knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from your vain conduct handed down from your fathers,19but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, of Christ,20foreknown before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you21the ones who are faithful to God through him, the one who raised him from the dead and gave glory to him, so that your faith and hope are in God.22Having purified your souls by obeying the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from the heart.23having been regenerated not from perishable seed but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God,24because all flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of grass. The grass withered, and the flower fell off.25But the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
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Chapter 2
1Therefore, putting off all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all slanders,2As newborn infants, earnestly desire the pure rational milk, so that in it you may grow into salvation.3if you have tasted that the Lord is kind