23. Do this because you have been given new birth—not from the type of seed that decays but from seed that doesn’t. This seed is God’s life-giving and enduring word.
24. Thus, All human life on the earth is like grass, and all human glory is like a flower in a field. The grass dries up and its flower falls off,
25. but the Lord’s word endures forever. This is the word that was proclaimed to you as good news.