Therefore, prepare your minds for action,{Literally, "gird up the loins of your mind"} be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--
In that we have such a living, expectant hope, let us gather up all impediments--any improper attitudes, feelings, thoughts, or anything else that would impede our spiritual progress--and run the race with the full expectancy of receiving the eternal reward.