1 Peter 1:13-21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

A Call to Holy Living

¹³ Therefore prepare your minds for action;^[a] discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed.^{(A) 14} Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance. ¹⁵ Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct,^{(B) 16} for it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”^(C)

¹⁷ If you invoke as Father the one who judges impartially according to each person’s work, live in fear during the time of your exile.^{(D) 18} You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.^{(E) 20} He was destined before the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake.^{(F) 21} Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your trust and hope are in God.