1st Peter 1:17
American Standard Translation
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14 as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:
15 but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;
16 because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.
17 And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man`s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:
18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;
19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, [even the blood] of Christ:
20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake,