²¹ But he replied to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.”^(A)

²⁸ He said, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God^(A) and keep it.”^(B)

¹¹ He stayed there a year and a half, teaching the word of God among them.

²¹ Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent,^[a] humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.^(A)

²³ because you have been born again^(A)—not of perishable seed^(B) but of imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God.^(C)