1 Peter 1:13-16
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[13] Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ-- [14] as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, [15] but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; [16] because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy."
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passagePontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia were Roman provinces or regions in Asia Minor (modern Turkey), where Peter’s dispersed Christian readers lived. Their geographic scattering frames his call to live as God’s holy people amid surrounding Gentile societies and former patterns of ignorance.
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1 Peter 1:13-16 mentions Asia, Bithynia, Cappadocia, Galatia and Pontus.
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