12. To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you they ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you, the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, on whom the angels desire to look.
13. Wherefore having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
14. As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance:
15. But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy:
16. Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.
17. And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every one's work: converse in fear during the time of your sojourning here.
18. Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers: