001:016 Because it stands written, "You are to be holy, because I am holy."
001:017 And if you address as your Father Him who judges impartially in accordance with each man's actions, then spend in fear the time of your stay here on earth,
001:018 knowing, as you do, that it was not with a ransom of perishable wealth, such as silver or gold, that you were set free from your frivolous habits of life which had been handed down to you from your forefathers,
001:019 but with the precious blood of Christ—as of an unblemished and spotless lamb.
001:020 He was pre-destined indeed to this work, even before the creation of the world, but has been plainly manifested in these last days for the sake of you who, through Him,
001:021 are faithful to God, who raised Him from among the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are resting upon God.
001:022 Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently.
001:023 For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring
word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life.
001:024 "All mankind resemble the herbage, and all their beauty is like
its flowers. The herbage dries up, and its flowers drop off;
001:025 But the word of the Lord remains for ever." And that means
the Message which has been proclaimed among you in the Good News.