Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
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Gill's Exposition
Being born again,.... As they were of God, according to his abundant mercy, by the resurrection of Christ, to a lively hope of a glorious inheritance; as in Pe1 1:3 and therefore seeing they were…
Barnes' Notes
Being born again - See the notes at Joh 3:3. Not of corruptible seed - “Not by virtue of any descent from human parents” - Doddridge. The result of such a birth, or of being begotten in this way - for…
Adam Clarke
Being born again - For being born of Abraham's seed will not avail to the entering of the kingdom of heaven.
Not of corruptible seed - By no human generation, or earthly means; but of incorruptible -…
Here the apostle begins his exhortations to those whose glorious state he had before described, thereby instructing us that Christianity is a doctrine according to godliness, designed to make us not…
Cambridge Bible
being born again Better, having been begotten again, the verb being the same as that in 1Pe 1:3. The "corruptible seed" is that which is the cause of man's natural birth, and the preposition which St…
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