Holiness Over Happiness - 1 Peter 1:15-19

Are you concerned with being holy as much as you are with being happy? What if I told you that striving toward holiness was in fact the best way to truly be happy? The Bible tells us a great truth, that to seek the things of God is better than to seek the things of this world.

1 Peter 1:15-19 KJV

15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

18 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;

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: