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What does 1 Peter 1:25 mean?
"but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you."
— 1 Peter 1:25 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
Explanation
First Peter 1:25 says something simple but profound: while everything in this world eventually fades away, God's word never does. The verse is actually the second half of a quotation from Isaiah 40:6-8, where the prophet compared human life and glory to grass and flowers that wither under the sun, but declared that "the word of our God stands forever." Peter picks up this Old Testament image and applies it directly to the gospel message his readers had received, telling them plainly that this good news preached to them is
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