23 because you have been born againbe—not of perishable seedbf but of imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God.bg 24 For

All flesh is like grass,

and all its glorybh like a flower of the grass.

The grass withers, and the flower falls,

25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.H,bi

And this word is the gospel that was proclaimed to you.