²⁹ “Is not my word like fire,”^(A) declares the Lord, “and like a hammer^(B) that breaks a rock in pieces?

²⁶ to make her holy,^(A) cleansing^[a] her by the washing^(B) with water through the word,

⁵ who have tasted the goodness^(A) of the word of God^(B) and the powers of the coming age

²³ For you have been born again,^(A) not of perishable seed, but of imperishable,^(B) through the living and enduring word of God.^(C)