REDEEMED FROM AN EMPTY WAY OF LIFE

 

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)