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14 As obedient children, do not pattern your lives after the evil desires you formerly had when you were ignorant,
15 but according to the Holy One, who called you [i.e., God], you people also should become holy [i.e., separated for God’s service] in all your conduct,
16 because it is written [Lev. 11:44f], “You shall be holy [i.e., separated from sin] even as I am holy.”
17 And if you call upon [God as] your Father, who judges each person’s work impartially, [then] conduct yourselves during the time you spend in this life showing reverence [to God].
18 You [should] know that you were bought back [from Satan], from your useless way of life, inherited from your forefathers, not with such perishable things as silver and gold,
19 but with [the] precious blood of Christ, who represents an unblemished lamb, without defect.
20 For Christ was previously known [by God, even] before the world was created, yet was not fully revealed for your benefit until [these] final times.
21 [It is] through Christ, whom God raised from the dead and honored, that you people have become believers in God, so that your faith and hope could rest in God.