1 Peter 1

Today I prepare my mind for action. I’m sober-minded. I set my hope fully on the grace that is brought to me today by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Today, by God’s grace, I am holy in all my conduct, knowing that I am ransomed from the futile ways inherited from my forefathers not with perishable things, but with the precious blood of Christ. My faith and my hope are in God.

God has purified my soul through faith in Christ. I know I am loved by God and able to love others earnestly with a pure heart. I have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God.

All flesh is like grass. Grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever. And this word is the good news that has been preached to me. So, I put away all malice and self, and long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it, I may grow up into salvation.