8. Though you have not seen Him, you love Him. And even though you don’t see Him now, you trust Him and are filled with a joy that is glorious beyond words,
9. receiving the outcome of your faith—the salvation of your souls.
10. The prophets, who spoke about the grace that was to be yours, searched for this salvation and investigated carefully.
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.