Music Director Rick Galyean reads I Peter 1:17-23 from the New Revised Standard Version during the worship service at Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.

I Peter 1:17-23 New Revised Standard Version

17If you invoke as Father the one who judges impartially according to each person’s work, live in fear during the time of your exile. 18You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold 19but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish. 20He was destined before the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake. 21Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and have him glory, so that your trust and hope are in God.
22Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart. 23You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.