The First Epistle General of Peter, chapter 1.
We are sojourning here in fear.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from
your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish
and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the
world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 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.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto
unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure
heart fervently, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away, but the word of the
Lord endureth forever.
And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.