17If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man`s work, pass the time of your living as strangers here in reverent fear:
18knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
19but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, the blood of Christ;
20who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,
21who 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.
22Seeing 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:
23having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
