11. They were trying to find out the time and circumstances the Ruach of Messiah within them was indicating, when predicting the sufferings in store for Messiah and the glories to follow.
12. It was revealed to them that they were providing these messages not to themselves but to you. These messages have now been announced to you through those who proclaimed the Good News to you by the Ruach ha-Kodesh, sent from heaven. Even angels long to catch a glimpse of these things.
13. So brace your minds for action. Keep your balance. And set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Yeshua the Messiah.
14. Like obedient children, do not be shaped by the cravings you had formerly in your ignorance.
15. Instead, just like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in everything you do.
16. For it is written, “Kedoshim you shall be, for I am kadosh.”
17. If you call on Him as Father—the One who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds—then live out the time of sojourning in reverent fear.
18. You know that you were redeemed from the futile way of life handed down from your ancestors—not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
19. but with precious blood like that of a lamb without defect or spot, the blood of Messiah.
20. He was chosen before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
21. Through Him you are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your trust and hope are in God.
22. Now that you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth, leading to sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from a pure heart.
23. You have been born again—not from perishable seed but imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God.
24. For, “All humanity is like grass, And all its glory like a wildflower. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,
25. But the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed as Good News to you.