The Bible in Basic English BBE
New International Version NIV
20 Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,
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He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
21 Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
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Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
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Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.
23 Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
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For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
24 For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
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For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
25 But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.
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but the word of the Lord endures forever.”And this is the word that was preached to you.
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