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: |
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, |
21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. |
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: |
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. |
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: |
25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. |
