1 Peter 1:13–2:3

¹³Wherefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, be sober and hope with perfect stedfastness in the grace which will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; ¹⁴as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance; ¹⁵but as he who has called you is holy, be ye also holy in all your conversation; ¹⁶because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy. ¹⁷And if ye invoke as Father him who, without regard of persons, judges according to the work of each, pass your time of sojourn in fear, ¹⁸knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers, ¹⁹but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ, ²⁰foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes, ²¹who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among the dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God. ²²Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently; ²³being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the living and abiding word of God.

²⁴Because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. The grass has withered and its flower has fallen; ²⁵but the word of the Lord abides for eternity. But this is the word which in the glad tidings is preached to you.

Chapter 2

¹Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings, ²as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation, ³if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord is good.