according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled in his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
"To ’sprinkle with Christ’s blood’ means to take a person into the realm of influence of Christ’s dying, to align him or her with the One who died. This alignment accomplishes, as the figure expresses graphically, purification and thereby appropriation into a new connection to God." [Note: Goppelt, p. 75. Cf. Bigg, p. 93.] 