18Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,
19But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:
20Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,
21Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
22And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
23Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
24For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
