¹³ In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

⁵ For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

¹⁸ Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.