12 to whom it was revealed that they were serving, not themselves, but you, in these matters which now have been announced to you through those who brought the Good News to you by the Set-apart Spirit sent from heaven – into which messengers long to look into.
13 Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, set your expectation perfectly upon the favour that is to be brought to you at the revelation of יהושע Messiah,
14 as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance,
15 instead, as the One who called you is set-apart, so you also should become set-apart in all behaviour,
16 because it has been written, “Be set-apart, for I am set-apart.”
17 And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear,
18 knowing that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers, not with what is corruptible, silver or gold,