15. but, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct,
16. for it is written, “Be holy because I [am] holy.”
17. Now if you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning,
18. realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold
19. but with the precious blood of Christ as of a spotless unblemished lamb.
20. He was known before the foundation of the world but revealed in the final time for you,
21. who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
22. Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere mutual love, love one another intensely from a [pure] heart.
23. You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God,