1 Peter 1:18-25

18For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

19but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb.

20He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was revealed in these last times for you.

21Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

22Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth, so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other, from a pure heart love one another constantly,

23because you have been born again  — not of perishable seed but of imperishable — through the living and enduring word of God.

24For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

25but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this word is the gospel that was proclaimed to you.