echoes the exodus situation, when the people of God were told to repudiate any pagan lifestyle, whether Egyptian (behind them) or Canaanite (ahead of them), and to obey their Lord’s summons to a life of holiness (Lev. 18:2–4). 1:15 / But … as he who has called you is holy, so be holy in all you do. The character of believers is to be radically different from what it was in their pre-conversion days, for the new spiritual life bestowed upon them as a consequence of their new birth (1:3) is of God—
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