1 Peter 1:13 says,  Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;  We are to wrap our minds in the hope of the grace of Jesus Christ, Who will be with us forever.  Our thoughts are to always be directed by the Holy Spirit.  Verse fourteen states, As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:  Our thoughts, directed by the Holy Spirit, are to lead us to be obedient children of God.  We are to no longer be led by the lusts of our ignorance as we were before we became followers of Christ.  Verse fifteen adds, But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;  Holy does not mean self righteous or sanctimonious, but set apart from the world under the guidance of God.  We are to honor God in all that we say and do.  Verse sixteen concludes, Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.  We can never be holy by our own strength and understanding, but can only be so by the grace and power of God.  We never have a reason to boast of our own goodness, but only of the goodness of God.  Verse seventeen proclaims, And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons  according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:  When we call on the heavenly Father, if we have accepted Christ as Savior and Lord, He will hear us no matter who we are in the eyes of the world.  Of course, God will hear anyone who calls to Him by faith for salvation through Christ.  God does not forgive some and not others.  This should give us an awesome respect for God.  Verse eighteen states, Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;  Salvation is not made available by the things we consider valuable in the world, such as silver and gold.  We cannot buy salvation with corruptable things, but can only claim it as a free gift from God.  Verse nineteen adds, But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:  The only way to salvation is through the blood of Christ, the sacrifice without blemish.  This does not say that faith in Christ is a way to salvation, but that it is the only way to salvation.  Verse twenty continues, Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,  Christ was the only way to salvation even before Creation.  He was not an afterthought.  Because God gives people free will He always knew that they could rebel against Him.  Still, God loves us enough to make a way of salvation available, even at a great cost to Himself.  Verse twenty-one concludes, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.  We must put our faith in Christ, believing that He died for our sins.  We must give Christ the glory, so that our faith and hope will be in God.  Verse twenty-two states, Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:  When we accept Christ as our Savior and Lord, our souls are purified.  Then, we are to have a love for our fellow believers that is real and not faked.  We are too truly have their best interests at heart.  Verse twenty-three declares, Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.  This is not an option.  If we are to be saved, we must be born again by faith in Christ.  To say we are Christians but not born again makes a liar either of God or of us.  Verse twenty-four proclaims, For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:  Our physical bodies are as temporary as the grass or the flowers.  Verse twenty-five concludes, But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.  Only the word of God lasts forever, and it is by the word of God that the gospel is preached to us.  We can add nothing to the gospel, nor can we take anything away from it.  We can simply accept it by faith, or reject it altogether.