^{14 Ref} As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

^{15 Ref} But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

^{16 Ref} Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

^{17 Ref} And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

^{18 Ref} Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

^{19 Ref} But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

^{20 Ref} Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

^{21 Ref} Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.