001:015 but--in imitation of the holy One who has called you-- you also must be holy in all your habits of life. 001:016 Because it stands written, "You are to be holy, because I am holy." 001:017 And if you address as your Father Him who judges impartially in accordance with each man's actions, then spend in fear the time of your stay here on earth, 001:018 knowing, as you do, that it was not with a ransom of perishable wealth, such as silver or gold, that you were set free from your frivolous habits of life which had been handed down to you from your forefathers, 001:019 but with the precious blood of Christ--as of an unblemished and spotless lamb. 001:020 He was pre-destined indeed to this work, even before the creation of the world, but has been plainly manifested in these last days for the sake of you who, through Him, 001:021 are faithful to God, who raised Him from among the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are resting upon God. 001:022 Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently. 001:023 For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life. 001:024 "All mankind resemble the herbage, and all their beauty is like its flowers. The herbage dries up, and its flowers drop off; 001:025 But the word of the Lord remains for ever." And that means the Message which has been proclaimed among you in the Good News. 002:001 Rid yourselves therefore of all ill-will and all deceitfulness, of insincerity and envy, and of all evil speaking. 002:002 Thirst, like newly-born infants, for pure milk for the soul, that by it you may grow up to salvation; 002:003 if you have had any experience of the goodness of the Lord. 002:004 Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour. 002:005 And be yourselves also like living stones that are being built up into a spiritual house, to become a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 002:006 For it is contained in Scripture, "See, I am placing on Mount Zion a Cornerstone, chosen, and held in honour, and he whose faith rests on Him shall never have reason to feel ashamed." 002:007 To you believers, therefore, that honour belongs; but for unbelievers--"A Stone which the builders rejected has been made the Cornerstone," 002:008 and "a Stone for the foot to strike against, and a Rock to stumble over." Their foot strikes against it because they are disobedient to God's Message, and to this they were appointed.