<p>1:25 <i>But the word of the Lord endures for ever</i>- The word of the Lord Jesus is put for the fruit brought forth by it. See on 1:24 <i>The grass withers</i>.</p><p><i>And this is the word of good news which was preached to you</i>- &ldquo;Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth (accepting the basic doctrine of the Gospel)... see that ye (continue) being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God... and this is the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you&quot; (1 Pet.1:22-25 AV). Note the continuous tense of &quot;<i>is</i>&quot;, according to the AV; remembering that Peter is writing to those already converted. The once off act of intercourse and begettal, whereby the seed or sperm initiates new life, is here spoken of in the continuous sense. Similarly, a sower sowing seed is a once-off act, yet the parable has an ongoing application. Human &quot;seed&quot; and begettal is &quot;corruptible&quot; (1 Pet.1:23)- i.e. the offspring does not have the exact character of the person from whom the seed originated. Yet God's seed is &quot;incorruptible&quot; in that it will eventually result in our being brought forth in the exact image of God after the judgment, when we are fully born of Spirit nature. This is because &quot;the word (seed) of God... liveth and abideth for ever&quot;, i.e. God's word can have constant intercourse with us, constantly creating us after the image of our spiritual Father.</p><p><i>&nbsp;</i>The word is to be made flesh in us as it was in the Lord. &quot;The word&quot; in the New Testament often refers to the basic Gospel rather than every inspired word which there is in the whole Bible. But here it specifically refers to the word which is Jesus. &quot;The word of God (a title of Jesus)... the word of the Lord... is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you&quot; (1 Pet. 1:23,25 RV). It is this word of the basic Gospel which is the &quot;milk of the word&quot; which enables us to &quot;put away therefore all malice... guile... hypocrisies&quot; (1 Pet. 2:1,2). And having spoken of tasting / drinking the word of God (the same figure is in Heb. 6:5), Peter then speaks of tasting the grace of the Lord Jesus (2:3). He is the word of the Gospel made flesh- to taste His Gospel, the word, is to taste of Him.</p>