having been regenerated, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of the living God, which remains.

"For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls down; but the word of the Lord remains forever."

Now this is that word which has been proclaimed as glad tidings to you.

as newborn babes, earnestly desire the unadulterated milk of the word, that you may grow by it.

a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. Those who stumble at the word, are disobedient unbelievers, to which, therefore, they were appointed:

In like manner, let the wives be in subjection to their own husbands; that, indeed, if any obey not the word, they, without the word, may be won by the behavior of their wives,