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23 You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.[a] 24 For:

All flesh is like grass,
    and all its glory like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, and the flower fades,
25     but the word of the Lord endures forever.

It is this word that has been proclaimed to you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:23 Born anew . . . through the . . . word of God: the Christian’s new birth results from the action of the Holy Spirit (see Tit 3:5), but the word of God also plays an important part therein (see Jas 1:18). The latter presents the Gospel to us and summons us to repent and believe in Christ (see v. 25). The living and enduring word of God: another possible translation is: “the word of the living and enduring God.”