1 Peter 1:13-25

Therefore, with your minds ready for action,  be sober-minded  and set your hope  completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation  of Jesus Christ. As obedient children,  do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance. But as the one who called you  is holy,  you also are to be holy in all your conduct; for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.   , If you appeal to the Father who judges impartially  according to each one’s work,  you are to conduct yourselves in reverence  during your time living as strangers. For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life  inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,  but with the precious blood of Christ,  like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb.  He was foreknown  before the foundation of the world but was revealed in these last times  for you. Through him you believe in God,  who raised him from the dead  and gave him glory,  so that your faith and hope are in God. Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth,  so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other,  from a pure  heart love one another constantly,  , because you have been born again   #— #not of perishable seed  but of imperishable #— #through the living and enduring word of God.  For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory   like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord endures forever.   , And this word is the gospel that was proclaimed to you.