^{18 Ref} Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

^{19 Ref} But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:

^{20 Ref} Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,

^{21 Ref} Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

^{22 Ref} And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

^{23 Ref} Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

^{24 Ref} For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

^{25 Ref} But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.