17 Since you Call on a Father
Who Judges Each Person’s Work Impartially,
Live out your Time as Foreigners
In Reverent Fear.
18 For you know
That it was not with Perishable Things
Such as Silver or Gold
That you were Redeemed
From the Empty Way of Life
Handed Down to you from your Ancestors.
19 But with the Precious Blood of Christ,
A Lamb, without Blemish or Defect.
20 He was Chosen before the Creation of the World,
But Revealed in these Last Times
For your Sake.
21 Through Him you Believed God,
Who Raise Him from the Dead
And Glorified Him,
And so your Faith and Hope are in God.
22 Now that you have Purified yourselves
By Obeying the Truth
So that you have Sincere Love for Each Other,
Love one another Deeply,
From the Heart.
23 For you have been Born Again,
Not of Perishable Seed, but Imperishable,
Through the Living and Enduring Word of God.
24 For, “All people are like Grass
And All their Glory is like the Flower of the Field;
The Grass Withers and the Flowers Fall,
25 But the Word of the Lord Endures Forever.”
(1 Peter 1:17-25, NIV)
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