1 Peter 1:20-23

CLV(i) 20 foreknown, indeed, before the disruption of the world, yet manifested in the last times because of you, who through Him are believing in God, 21 Who rouses Him from among the dead and is giving Him glory, so that your faith and expectation is to be in God." 22 Having purified your souls, by the obedience of truth, for unfeigned fondness for the brethren, love one another out of a true heart earnestly, 23 having been regenerated, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, living and permanent,