So think clearly and exercise self-control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into you old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”
And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of Him during your time as “foreigners in the land.” For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. An the ransom He paid was not mere sliver or gold. It was the precious blood of Christ, sinless, spotless Lamb of God. God chose Him as your ransom long before the world began, but He has now revealed Him to you in the last days.
Through Christ you come to trust in God. And you have placed your faith and hope in God because He raised Christ from the deat and gave Him great glory. (vv. 13-21, NLT)