¹³Therefore, when you have prepared your minds for action^e by^* being self-controlled, put your hope completely in the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires you used to conform to^* in your ignorance, ¹⁵but as the one who called you is holy, you yourselves be holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶for it is written, “You will be holy, because I am^* holy.”^f^g ¹⁷And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves with fear during the time of your temporary residence, ¹⁸because you^* know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold, ¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb ²⁰who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has been revealed in these last times for you ²¹who through him are believing 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 your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,^h ²³because you^* have been born again, not from perishable seed but imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. ²⁴For

“all flesh is like grass,

and all its glory like the flower of the grass.

The grass withers and the flower falls off,

²⁵but the word of the Lord endures foreverⁱ.”^j

And this is the word that has been proclaimed to you.

Chosen as Living Stones

2Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, ²like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation, ³if you have tasted that the Lord is kind,^a

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1 Peter 1:16: …since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Footnotes

eLiterally “having girded up the loins of your mind”
*Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“being self-controlled”) which is understood as means
*This is an understood repetition of the earlier verb “be conformed to”
*Here the verb is understood in Greek and is supplied in the translation
fA quotation from Lev 19:2
gSome manuscripts explicitly state “I am holy”
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“know”) which is understood as causal
hSome manuscripts have “from a pure heart”
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have been born again”) which is understood as causal
iLiterally “for the age”
jA quotation from Isa 40:6, 8
aA quotation from Ps 34:8