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 Verse 13. Wherefore gird up the loynes of your minde, be sober, and hope to the end, for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Verse 14. As obedient children, not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Verse 15. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

Verse 16. Because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.

Verse 17. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every mans worke, passe the time of your sojourning here in feare.

Verse 18. For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vaine conversation received by tradition from your fathers.

Verse 19. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lambe without blemish, and without spot,

Verse 20. Who verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.

Verse 21. Who by him do beleeve in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

Verse 22. Seeing yee have purified your soules in obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeined love of the brethren; see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently,

Verse 23. Bring borne againe, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Verse 24. For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glory of man as the flower of grasse: the grasse withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away;

Verse 25. But the word of the Lord endureth for ever: and this is the word which by the Gospell is preached unto you.

IN this part of the chapter, there is contein'd an exhortation to persist and goe forward in the grace of God; which is the Scope of the whole Epistle, as was shewed before: Now this duty is described in generall in the 13. verse, and after