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1 Peter 1:23 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. "
1 Peter 1:23
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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.
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:
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
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:
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
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1 Peter 1:1
"Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,"
1 Peter 1:2
"Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied."
1 Peter 1:3
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten ➔ us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,"
1 Peter 1:4
"To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,"
1 Peter 1:5
"Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."
1 Peter 1:6
"Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:"
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