Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
    born again: New birth is a way of describing Christian conversion (cp. John 3:1-13; James 1:18; 1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:9; 1 John 4:7; 1 John 5:1, 1 John 5:4, 1 John 5:18). This Greek word, which occurs again in 1:23, brackets the message of ch 1. NLTSB