1 Peter 1:23

Weymouth NT

For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life.

Cross References

Matthew 24:35

Earth and sky will pass away, but it is certain that my words will not pass away.

Luke 8:11

The meaning of the parable is as follows. The seed is God's Message.

John 1:13

who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a human father, but from God.

John 1:3

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing that exists came into being.

John 3:3

»In most solemn truth I tell you,« answered Jesus, »that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God.«

John 3:5

»In most solemn truth I tell you,« replied Jesus, »that unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

John 6:63

It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and are Life.

Romans 1:23

and, instead of worshipping the imperishable God, they worshipped images resembling perishable man or resembling birds or beasts or reptiles.

Hebrews 4:12

For God's Message is full of life and power, and is keener than the sharpest two-edged sword. It pierces even to the severance of soul from spirit, and penetrates between the joints and the marrow, and it can discern the secret thoughts and purposes of the heart.

James 1:18

In accordance with His will He made us His children through the Message of the truth, so that we might, in a sense, be the Firstfruits of the things which He has created.

1 Peter 1:25

But the word of the Lord remains for ever.« And that means the Message which has been proclaimed among you in the Good News.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in His great mercy has begotten us anew to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 John 3:9

No one who is a child of God is habitually guilty of sin. A God-given germ of life remains in him, and he cannot habitually sin–because he is a child of God.

1 John 5:18

We know that no one who is a child of God lives in sin, but He who is God's Child keeps him, and the Evil one cannot touch him.