Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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20 Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the 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 are faithful in God who raised him up from the dead and hath given him glory, 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 Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:
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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 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.
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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 all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.
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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 endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto 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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