13 Therefore, [a](A)prepare your minds for action, [b](B)keep sober in spirit, set your (C)hope completely on the (D)grace to be brought to you at (E)the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As [c](F)obedient children, do not [d](G)be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your (H)ignorance, 15 but [e](I)like the Holy One who called you, [f](J)be holy yourselves also (K)in all your behavior; 16 because it is written: “(L)You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:13 Lit belt up the waist of your mind
  2. 1 Peter 1:13 Lit be sober
  3. 1 Peter 1:14 Lit children of obedience
  4. 1 Peter 1:14 Or conform yourselves
  5. 1 Peter 1:15 Lit according to
  6. 1 Peter 1:15 Or become

13 Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that [a]is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 14 as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance: 15 but [b]like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living; 16 because it is written, [c]Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:13 Greek is being brought.
  2. 1 Peter 1:15 Or, like the Holy One who called you
  3. 1 Peter 1:16 Lev. 11:44f; 19:2; 20:7.