1 Peter 1:23
Good News Translation
For through the living and eternal word of God you have been born again as the children of a parent who is immortal, not mortal.

New Revised Standard Version
You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

Contemporary English Version
Do this because God has given you new birth by his message that lives on forever.

New American Bible
You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.

born.

1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead:

John 1:3 All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.

John 3:5 Jesus answered: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

not.

Malachi 2:3 Behold, I will cast the shoulder to you, and will scatter upon your face the dung of your solemnities, and it shall take you away with it.

Romans 1:23 And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts and of creeping things.

1 Corinthians 15:53,54 For this corruptible must put on incorruption: and this mortal must put on immortality. . . .

but.

1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him and the wicked one toucheth him not.

by.

1 Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you.

Jeremiah 23:28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth: what hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

James 1:18 For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creature.

Context
The Word of the Lord Stands
22Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly: 23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever. 24For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.…
Cross References
Luke 8:11
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

John 1:13
Who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:3
Jesus answered and said to him: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

James 1:18
For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creature.

1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead:

1 John 3:9
Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

1 Peter 1:22
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