1 Peter 1:13-21 Therefore gird up your minds and fix your hopes calmly and unfalteringly upon the boon that is soon to be yours, at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ.

WNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹³ Therefore gird up your minds and fix your hopes calmly and unfalteringly upon the boon that is soon to be yours, at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance, ¹⁵ but--in imitation of the holy One who has called you--you also must be holy in all your habits of life. ¹⁶ Because it stands written, "YOU ARE TO BE HOLY, BECAUSE I AM HOLY." ¹⁷ And if you address as your Father Him who judges impartially in accordance with each man's actions, then spend in fear the time of your stay here on earth, ¹⁸ knowing, as you do, that it was not with a ransom of perishable wealth, such as silver or gold, that you were set free from your frivolous habits of life which had been handed down to you from your forefathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ--as of an unblemished and spotless lamb. ²⁰ He was pre-destined indeed to this work, even before the creation of the world, but has been plainly manifested in these last days for the sake of you who, through Him, ²¹ are faithful to God, who raised Him from among the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are resting upon God.