I will never forget thy precepts; for by them thou hast given me life.
I will delight in thy statutes; I will not forget thy word.
My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to thy word!
This is my comfort in my affliction that thy promise gives me life.
It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;