23 (A)since you have been born again, (B)not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through (C)the living and abiding word of God;

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23 For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.

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23 You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal [a]origin ([b]seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:23 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
  2. 1 Peter 1:23 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.