1. Gird up the loins of your mind (1Pet. 1:13). This means to brace up and take courage in face of the trials that one is called to go through.

2. Be sober (1Pet. 1:13). Greek: nepho (GSN-3525), to live soberly and righteously (cp. Tit. 2:11-12). See pt. 3, Conditions of Escape.

3. Hope to the end for the grace and salvation that are to be brought at the coming of Christ (1Pet. 1:13; Rom. 8:24-25). This further confirms the fact that all of grace and salvation is not received at the remission of sins. See To the End, above.

4. Do not pattern after your former life of sin (1Pet. 1:14; Eph. 2:1-3). You are new creatures and you must live new lives (2Cor. 5:17-18).

5. Be holy in all your manner of life (1Pet. 1:15). You are to pattern after God in all things (1Pet. 1:16).

6. Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear (1Pet. 1:17; 1Cor. 10:12-13).

7. See that you love one another with a pure heart fervently (1Pet. 1:22; Jn. 13:34-35; Jn. 15:12-13).

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