with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 001:019 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ; 001:020 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake, 001:021 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God. 001:022 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently: 001:023 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever. 001:024 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; 001:025 but the Lord's word endures forever."{Isaiah 40:6-8} This is the word of Good News which was preached to you. 002:001 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 002:002 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby, 002:003 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: 002:004 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. 002:005 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 002:006 Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed."{Isaiah 28:16} 002:007 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"{Psalm 118:22} 002:008 and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense."{Isaiah 8:14} For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed. 002:009 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: 002:010 who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 002:011 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 002:012 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation. 002:013 Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for