13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hopefully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when youlived in ignorance.15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it iswritten: “Be holy, because I, the Lord your God, am holy.”17 Since you call on a Father who judges each man’s work impartially, live yourlives as strangers here in reverent fear.18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold thatyou were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from yourforefathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish ordefect.