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.

but the word of the Lord lasts forever." Now this word is the good news that was announced to you.

Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.

a stone they stumble over and a rock they trip on." They keep on stumbling because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

In a similar way, you wives must submit yourselves to your husbands so that, even if some of them refuse to obey the word, they may be won over without a word through your conduct as wives