1 Peter 1:13-25

21st Century King James Version

¹³ Therefore gird up the loins of your mind; be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ As obedient children, do not fashion yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance,

¹⁵ but as He who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of living,

¹⁶ because it is written: “Be ye holy, for I am holy.”

¹⁷ And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.

¹⁸ For ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, such as silver and gold, from your vain way of living which ye received by tradition from your fathers,

¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot,

²⁰ who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.

²¹ By Him ye believe in God, who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

²² Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently,

²³ being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God which liveth and abideth for ever;

²⁴ for “all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away;

²⁵ but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever.” And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.