^{18 Ref} having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

^{19 Ref} but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --

^{20 Ref} foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

^{21 Ref} who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

^{22 Ref} Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

^{23 Ref} being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;

^{24 Ref} because all flesh `is' as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,

^{25 Ref} and the saying of the Lord doth remain -- to the age; and this is the saying that was proclaimed good news to you.