60:001:018 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed
with
corruptible
things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation
received by tradition from your fathers;
60:001:019 But with the precious blood of Christ,
as of a lamb without
blemish
and without spot:
60:001:020 Who verily was foreordained before the
foundation of the
world,
but was manifest in these last times for you,
60:001:021 Who by him do believe in God, that raised
him up from the
dead,
and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might
be in
God.
60:001:022 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying
the truth
through
the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see
that
ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
60:001:023 Being born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of
incorruptible,
by the word of God, which liveth and abideth
for
ever.
60:001:024 For all flesh is as grass, and all the
glory of man as the
flower
of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower
thereof
falleth
away:
60:001:025 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.
And this is the
word
which by the gospel is preached unto you.
60:002:001 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and
all guile, and
hypocrisies,
and envies, all evil speakings,
60:002:002 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk
of the word, that ye
may
grow thereby:
60:002:003 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
60:002:004 To whom coming, as unto a living stone,
disallowed indeed of
men,
but chosen of God, and precious,
60:002:005 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up
a spiritual house, an
holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable
to
God by Jesus Christ.
60:002:006 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture,
Behold, I lay
in
Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and
he that
believeth
on him shall not be confounded.
60:002:007 Unto you therefore which believe he is
precious: but unto them
which
be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed,
the
same is made the head of the corner,
60:002:008 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of
offence, even to them
which
stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto
also
they
were appointed.
60:002:009 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy
nation,
a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the
praises
of him who hath called you out of darkness into his
marvellous
light;
60:002:010 Which in time past were not a people, but
are now the people
of
God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have
obtained
mercy.


