1 Peter 1:18-25 ▼

18 having known that, not with corruptible things—silver or gold—were you redeemed from your foolish behavior inherited from our forefathers,

19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted—Christ’s—

20 foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and revealed in the last times because of you,

21 who through Him believe in God who raised [Him] out of the dead, and gave glory to Him, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

22 Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unhypocritical brotherly love, love one another earnestly out of a pure heart,

23 being begotten again, not out of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through a word of God—living and remaining—throughout the age;

24 because all flesh [is] as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; the grass withered, and the flower of it fell away,

25 but the saying of the LORD remains—throughout the age; and this is the saying of good news that was proclaimed to you.