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knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
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but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, the blood of Christ;
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who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,
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who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
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Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
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having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
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For, "All flesh is like grass, And all of man`s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
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But the Lord`s word endures forever." This is the word of good news which was preached to you.