1 Peter 1:23

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and forever enduring word of God.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

In Context

22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all the glory of man like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

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Cross References

Leviticus 11:37If a carcass falls on any seed for sowing, the seed is clean;

Malachi 2:3Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.

John 1:3Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.

John 3:3Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”

John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I speak to you are spirit and they are life.

1 Corinthians 15:53For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 1:14-24

Sobriety and Holiness; Exhortation to Brotherly Love. ( a. d. 66.) 13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of… Read the whole commentary →

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