Readings for Lent and Easter

⁸ ... Whom not having seen, you are loving; in Whom— right-now not seeing Him, but believing— you are rejoicing-greatly with inexpressible^[a] and glorified joy ⁹ while receiving^[b] the outcome^[c] of your faith, the salvation of your souls,

¹⁰ ... concerning which salvation prophets sought-out and searched-out— the ones having prophesied about the grace for^[d] you— ¹¹ searching for what person^[e] or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating while predicting the sufferings for Christ and the glories after these, ¹² to whom it was revealed that they were ministering them not for themselves, but for you,

... which things now were declared to you through the ones having announced-the-good-news-to you by the Holy Spirit having been sent-forth from heaven, into which things angels desire to look.

In Light of What God Has Done:

¹³ Therefore:

Put Your Hope Completely Upon Your Coming Salvation

Having girded-up the waist of your minds^[f], being sober^[g]— put-your-hope completely^[h] upon the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Be Holy In All Your Conduct

¹⁴ As children of ^[i] obedience not being conformed^[j] to the former desires in-connection-with your ignorance, ¹⁵ but in accordance with the holy One having called you— be holy yourselves also in all your conduct^[k]. ¹⁶ Because it has been written that “You shall be holy, because I am holy” [Lev 19:2].

Live Out Your Days In The Fear of God

¹⁷ And if you are calling-upon as Father the One judging without-respect-of-persons according to the work of each person— conduct the time of your stay^[l] with fear^[m],