having been begotten again, not with corruptible seed, but with incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass; the grass withers, and its flower fails away: but the word of the Lord abides forever: and this is the word which has been preached as gospel to you.

and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense to the disobedient, who stumble at the word because they are disobedient, to which stumbling they were also appointed.

For this is praiseworthy, if any one, on account of conscience to ward God, endure sorrows, suffering unjustly.

Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may, without the word, be won by the conduct of their wives,