1 Peter 1:23

since your new life has come, not from perishable, but imperishable, seed, through the message of the Everliving God.

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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

22Now that, by your obedience to the truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts;

24For – ‘All earthly life is but as grass, and all its splendor as the flower of grass. The grass fades, its flower falls,

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Cross References

Malachi 2:3I will punish your descendants! I will spread offal upon your faces, even the offal of your pilgrim feasts, you will be discarded.

John 1:3through him all things came into being, and nothing came into being apart from him.

John 3:3“In truth I tell you,” exclaimed Jesus, “unless a person is reborn, they cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 6:63It is the Spirit that gives life; human strength achieves nothing. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is life.

1 Corinthians 15:53For this perishable body of ours must put on an imperishable form, and this dying body a deathless form.

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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