It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you in regard to the things that have now been announced to you by those who brought you the good news through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. These are things that even the angels desire to look into.

For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you have been ransomed from the worthless way of life handed down to you by your ancestors,

For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that cannot perish by the living and everlasting word of God.

"He himself bore our sins" in his body on the tree, so that we might die to those sins and live righteously. "By his wounds you have been healed."

who has gone to heaven and is at the right hand of God, where angels, authorities, and powers have been made subject to him.