8. Although you have not seen him you love him; even though you do not see him now yet believe in him, you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
9. as you attain the goal of [your] faith, the salvation of your souls.
10. Concerning this salvation, prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and investigated it,
11. investigating the time and circumstances that the Spirit of Christ within them indicated when it testified in advance to the sufferings destined for Christ and the glories to follow them.
12. It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you with regard to the things that have now been announced to you by those who preached the good news to you [through] the holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels longed to look.
13. Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, live soberly, and set your hopes completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
14. Like obedient children, do not act in compliance with the desires of your former ignorance
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.