20 He was foreordained before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for you.
21 Through Him you believe in God who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 Since your souls have been purified by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto a genuine brotherly love, love one another deeply with a pure heart,
23 for you have been born again, not from perishable seed, but imperishable, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.
24 For “All flesh is as grass,and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.The grass withers, and its flower falls away,
25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.”This is the word that was preached to you.