Readings for Lent and Easter

⁸ Whom you have not seen and yet love; in Whom now, though you do not see Him, you still believe and rejoice with unspeakable and glorious joy,

⁹ receiving the purpose of your faith: the salvation of your souls).

¹⁰ Of such salvation the Prophets have inquired and searched, prophesying of the grace that would come to you,

¹¹ searching when or at what time the Spirit of Christ (Who testified before) was in them, declaring the sufferings that would come to Christ and the glory that would follow.

¹² To them it was revealed—not to themselves, but to us— that they should minister the things which are shown to you by those who have preached the Gospel by the Holy Ghost, sent down from Heaven. These things the angels desire to behold.

¹³ Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind. Be sober and trust completely in that grace which is brought to you by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ As obedient children, do not conform yourselves to the former lusts of your ignorance.

¹⁵ But as He Who has called you is holy, so you be holy, in all manner of conversation.

¹⁶ Because it is written, “Be holy. For I am holy.”

¹⁷ And if you call him ‘Father’ (Who judges according to the work of each, without respect of persons), pass the time of your dwelling here in fear,