1 Peter 1:23-2:2 having been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, by the living and abiding word of God,

BLB⁽ⁱ⁾ ²³ having been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, by the living and abiding word of God, ²⁴ because, “All flesh is like grass, and all the glory of it like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls away, ²⁵ but the word of the Lord abides to the age.” And this is the word having been proclaimed to you. ² ¹ Therefore having put aside all malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings, ² like newborn babies, crave pure reasonable milk, so that by it you may grow up in respect to salvation,