^{18 Ref} Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

^{19 Ref} But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

^{20 Ref} Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

^{21 Ref} Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

^{22 Ref} Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

^{23 Ref} Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

^{24 Ref} For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

^{25 Ref} But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.