1 Peter 1:18-25
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
18 realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold(A) 19 but with the precious blood of Christ(B) as of a spotless unblemished lamb.[a] 20 He was known before the foundation of the world but revealed in the final time for you, 21 who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
Mutual Love.[b] 22 Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere mutual love, love one another intensely from a [pure] heart.(C) 23 You have been born anew,(D) not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God,[c] 24 for:
“All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like the flower of the field;
the grass withers,
and the flower wilts;(E)
25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.”
This is the word that has been proclaimed to you.
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- 1:19 Christians have received the redemption prophesied by Isaiah (Is 52:3), through the blood (Jewish symbol of life) of the spotless lamb (Is 53:7, 10; Jn 1:29; Rom 3:24–25; cf. 1 Cor 6:20).
- 1:22–25 The new birth of Christians (1 Pt 1:23) derives from Christ, the imperishable seed or sowing that produces a new and lasting existence in those who accept the gospel (1 Pt 1:24–25), with the consequent duty of loving one another (1 Pt 1:22).
- 1:23 The living and abiding word of God: or, “the word of the living and abiding God.”
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