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1 Peter 1:23
1 Peter 1:23 is verse 23 of 1 Peter chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
King James Version
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
World English Bible
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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1 Peter 1:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible
21 Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
24 For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
25 but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Peter 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
John 1:3Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.
John 3:5Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
Malachi 2:3Behold, I will rebuke your descendants, and I will spread dung on your faces, the waste from your feasts, and you will be carried off with it.
Romans 1:23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
1 Corinthians 15:53For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
1 Corinthians 15:54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
1 John 3:9Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
1 John 5:18We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.
1 Peter 1:25but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
Jeremiah 23:28Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
Hebrews 4:12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
James 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.