1 Peter 1:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.

Common English Bible

²³ Do this because you have been given new birth—not from the type of seed that decays but from seed that doesn’t. This seed is God’s life-giving and enduring word.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ For you have been born again, not from corruptible seed, but from what is incorruptible, from the Word of God, living and remaining for all eternity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Being born again not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.

1 Peter 1:23 Cross References

Jeremiah 23:28

The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? saith the LORD.

Leviticus 11:37

And if aught of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

Malachi 2:3

Behold, I will rebuke the seed for your sake, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your sacrifices; and ye shall be taken away with it.

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Luke 8:11

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

John 1:13

which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 1:3

All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.

John 3:3

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

John 3:5

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

John 6:63

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.

Romans 1:23

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

James 1:18

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

1 Peter 1:25

But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 John 3:9

Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is begotten of God.

1 John 5:18

We know that whosoever is begotten of God sinneth not; but he that was begotten of God keepeth him, and the evil one toucheth him not.