Peter 1:18-25
18 For you know that it was not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, that you were set free+ from your futile way of life handed down to you by your forefathers. 19 But it was with precious blood,+ like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb,+ that of Christ.+ 20 True, he was foreknown before the founding of the world,+ but he was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake.+ 21 Through him you are believers in God,+ the one who raised him up from the dead+ and gave him glory,+ so that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 Now that you have purified yourselves* by your obedience to the truth with unhypocritical brotherly affection+ as the result, love one another intensely from the heart.+ 23 For you have been given a new birth,+ not by corruptible, but by incorruptible seed,+ through the word of the living and enduring God.+ 24 For “all flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like a blossom of the field; the grass withers, and the flower falls off, 25 but the saying* of Jehovah* endures forever.”+ And this “saying”* is the good news that was declared to you.+
Psalms 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20
12 Glorify Jehovah, O Jerusalem.
Praise your God, O Zion.
13 He makes the bars of your city gates strong;
He blesses your sons within you.
14 He brings peace to your territory;+
He satisfies you with the finest* wheat.+
15 He sends his command to the earth;
His word runs swiftly.
19 He declares his word to Jacob,
His regulations and judgments to Israel.+
20 He has not done so with any other nation;+
They know nothing about his judgments.
Praise Jah!*+