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18 ) Forasmuch as all of you know that all of you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers,
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19 ) But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
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20 ) Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
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21 ) Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.
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22 ) Seeing all of you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, see that all of you love one another with a pure heart fervently:
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23 ) Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.
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24 ) For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away:
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25 ) But the word of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.