1 Peter 1:18-25 being aware that not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, were you ransomed from your vain behavior, handed down by tradition from the fathers,

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ being aware that not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, were you ransomed from your vain behavior, handed down by tradition from the fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a flawless and unspotted lamb, ²⁰ foreknown, indeed, before the disruption of the world, yet manifested in the last times because of you, who through Him are believing in God, ²¹ Who rouses Him from among the dead and is giving Him glory, so that your faith and expectation is to be in God." ²² Having purified your souls, by the obedience of truth, for unfeigned fondness for the brethren, love one another out of a true heart earnestly, ²³ having been regenerated, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, living and permanent, ²⁴ because All flesh is grass, And all its glory is as the flower of grass. Withered is the grass, And the flower falls off..." ²⁵ Yet the declaration of the Lord is remaining for the eon. Now this is the declaration which is being brought to you in the evangel.