Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
20 He had been chosen by God before the creation of the world and was revealed in these last days for your sake.
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He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
21 Through him you believe in God, who raised him from death and gave him glory; and so your faith and hope are fixed on 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 Now that by your obedience to the truth you have purified yourselves and have come to have a sincere love for other believers, love one another earnestly with all your 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 For through the living and eternal word of God you have been born again as the children of a parent who is immortal, not mortal.
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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 As the scripture says, "All human beings are like grass, and all their glory is like wild flowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall,
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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 remains forever." This word is the Good News that was proclaimed to you.
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but the word of the Lord endures forever.”And this is the word that was preached to you.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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