1 Pt 1:13-25

Obedience. 13^* Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind,^* live soberly, and set your hopes completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14Like obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance^* 15but, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct,ⁱ 16for it is written, “Be holy because I [am] holy.”^j

Reverence. 17Now if you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning,^k 18realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold^l 19but with the precious blood of Christ^m as of a spotless unblemished lamb.^* 20He was known before the foundation of the world but revealed in the final time for you, 21who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Mutual Love.^* 22Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere mutual love, love one another intensely from a [pure] heart.ⁿ 23You have been born anew,^o not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God,^* 24for:

“All flesh is like grass,

and all its glory like the flower of the field;

the grass withers,

and the flower wilts;^p

25but the word of the Lord remains forever.”

This is the word that has been proclaimed to you.