1 Peter 1:13–2:3

¹³Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ, ¹⁴as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance, ¹⁵but according as He who did call you is holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour, ¹⁶because it hath been written, ‘Become ye holy, because I am holy;’ ¹⁷and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye, ¹⁸having known that, not with corruptible things—silver or gold—were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, ¹⁹but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted—Christ’s— ²⁰foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you, ²¹who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God. ²²Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly, ²³being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God—living and remaining—to the age.

²⁴Because all flesh is as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away, ²⁵and the saying of the Lord doth remain—to the age; and this is the saying that was proclaimed good news to you.

Chapter 2

¹Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, ²as new-born babes the word’s pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow, ³if so be ye did taste that the Lord is gracious.