Life is marked by casting off the wrong and pursuing the right.

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. —1 Peter 4:7

Life is marked by receiving and giving practical love.

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. —1 Peter 4:8-9

Life is marked by rightly motivated service.

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. —1 Peter 4:10-11