1Peter:1:13-2

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* So then brace up your minds , be steady in spirit , and fix your hope firmly in the grace that is coming to you , at the revelation of Jesus Christ . * Like obedient children , do not fashion yourselves according to the former passions of your days of ignorance , * but become yourselves holy in your whole manner of living , as He who has called you is holy , * as the Scripture says , You shall be holy , because I am holy . * And since you call upon him as Father , who impartially judges each one according to his deeds , pass the time of your sojourning here in reverence . * For you well know that not with perishable things , with silver or gold , were you redeemed from the emptiness of your manner of life , received by tradition from your ancestors ; * but with precious blood , like that of a lamb without spot or blemish , even the blood of Christ . * He was indeed foreknown before the foundation of the world , but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake . * Through him you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory ; so that your faith and hope are now in God . * Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy , you must love one another from your hearts , fervently . * For you have been born anew , not of perishable , but of imperishable seed , by the living , lasting word of God . * For , All flesh is grass And all its glory like the flower of the grass . The grass fades , The flower falls , * But the word of the Lord abides forever . And this is the word of the gospel which has been told to you .

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