And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, (even the word) of God, ye accepted (it) not (as) the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.
having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.