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--
(15) Pareus observes, that the Apostle, in this part of the chapter, exhorted the faithful to sobriety, holiness, humility, and brotherly love, by five reasons: 1, because they were the children of God, 1 Peter 1:14; 2, because God is holy, and requires holiness, 1 Peter 1:15; 3, because God is no respecter of persons, 1 Peter 1:17; 4, because of the value of the price for their redemption, 1 Peter 1:18; and 5, because they had been born again of an immortal seed, 1 Peter 1:23. — Ed. 