1 Peter 1:13-21

Goodspeed(i) 13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, and with perfect calmness fix your hopes on the mercy that you are to experience when Jesus Christ is revealed. 14 Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant, 15 but like the holy Being who has called you, you must also prove holy in all your conduct, 16 for the Scripture says, "You must be holy, Because I am holy." 17 And if you address him as Father who judges everyone impartially by what he does, you must live reverently all the time you stay here, 18 for you know that you have not been ransomed with anything perishable like silver or gold, from the futile way of living in which you were brought up, 19 but with precious blood, like that of an unblemished, spotless lamb, the blood of Christ, 20 who was predestined for this before the foundation of the world, but was revealed only at the end of the ages, 21 for the sake of you who through him trust in God, who raised him from the dead and showed him honor; and so your faith and hope rest on God.