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So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ

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Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

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But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy

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Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

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And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

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Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

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But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:

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Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,

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Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory so that your faith and hope might be in God.

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And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

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Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

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For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

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But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.