Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

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^[a] with fear^[b], ¹⁸ knowing that you were redeemed from your futile^[c] way-of-life handed-down-from-your-fathers not with perishable things, silver or gold, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without-blemish and without-spot; ²⁰ He having been foreknown before the foundation of the world but having appeared^[d] at the last of times for your sake, ²¹ the believers through Him in God— the One having raised Him from the dead and having given Him glory— so that your faith and hope are in God.

Love One Another From a Pure Heart

²² Having purified your souls in^[e] obedience of the truth for a sincere^[f] brotherly-love— love one another fervently from a pure heart, ²³ having been born-again not from perishable seed but imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God. ²⁴ Because “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like a flower of grass. The grass was dried-up and the flower fell-off. ²⁵ But the word of the Lord abides forever” [Isa 40:6-8]— and this is the word having been announced-as-good-news to you.

Yearn For His Word So That You May Grow

2 Having then laid-aside all badness^[g], and all deceit and hypocrisies and jealousies, and all slanders—