The Enduring Word

22 Since you (A)have purified your souls in obeying the truth [a]through the Spirit in [b]sincere (B)love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 (C)having been born again, not of [c]corruptible seed but [d]incorruptible, (D)through the word of God which lives and abides [e]forever, 24 because

(E)“All flesh is as grass,
And all [f]the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,
25 (F)But the [g]word of the Lord endures forever.”

(G)Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

Our Inheritance Through Christ’s Blood

Therefore, (H)laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, (I)as newborn babes, desire the pure (J)milk of the word, that you may grow [h]thereby, if indeed you have (K)tasted that the Lord is gracious.

The Chosen Stone and His Chosen People(L)

Coming to Him as to a living stone, (M)rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:22 NU omits through the Spirit
  2. 1 Peter 1:22 Lit. unhypocritical
  3. 1 Peter 1:23 perishable
  4. 1 Peter 1:23 imperishable
  5. 1 Peter 1:23 NU omits forever
  6. 1 Peter 1:24 NU its glory as
  7. 1 Peter 1:25 spoken word
  8. 1 Peter 2:2 NU adds up to salvation

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