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13 ) Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
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14 ) As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
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15 ) But as he which has called you is holy, so be all of you holy in all manner of conversation,
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16 ) Because it is written, Be all of you holy, for I am holy.
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17 ) And if all of you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
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18 ) Forasmuch as all of you know that all of you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers,
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19 ) But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
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20 ) Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
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21 ) Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.
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22 ) Seeing all of you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, see that all of you love one another with a pure heart fervently:
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23 ) Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.
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24 ) For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away:
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25 ) But the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
