Thomson(i)
18 knowing that from that vain course of life, handed down to you from your fathers, you have been redeemed not with perishable things such as silver and gold,
19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot,
20 fore-ordained indeed before the foundation of the world, and manifested in these last times, for the sake of you
21 who by him believe in God, who hath raised him from the dead, and hath given him glory, so that you may have faith and hope in God.
22 Having, in obedience to the truth, purified your souls by the spirit for an unfeigned brotherly affection, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
23 as you have been born again not of corruptible but of incorruptible seed, by the word of God, which liveth and endureth forever.
24 Because "all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth,
25 but the decree of the Lord endureth forever", and this is the decree which hath been proclaimed as glad tidings for you;