23 For you have been begotten again by God's ever-living and enduring word from a germ not of perishable, but of imperishable life.24 »All mankind resemble the herbage, and all their beauty is like its flowers. The herbage dries up, and its flowers drop off;«25 But the word of the Lord remains for ever.« And that means the Message which has been proclaimed among you in the Good News.