1 Peter 1:23-2:2 because you have been born anew, not from a germ that perishes but from one that does not perish, by the word of the living and everlasting God.

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ²³ because you have been born anew, not from a germ that perishes but from one that does not perish, by the word of the living and everlasting God. ²⁴ For "All human life is just like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass dries up; the flowers drop off. ²⁵ But the word of the Lord lives on forever"; that is, the message of the good news which has been brought to you. ² ¹ So once for all get rid of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all sorts of slander, ² and like new-born babies thirst for pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to final salvation,