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because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."
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And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear;
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knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,
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but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
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He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you
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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.
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Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
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having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,
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because "All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away,
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But the word of the Lord endures forever." Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.