22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

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22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for (A)a sincere brotherly love, (B)love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 (C)since you have been born again, (D)not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through (E)the living and abiding word of God;

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22 Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth,[a] so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other,(A) from a pure[b] heart love one another constantly,[c](B) 23 because you have been born again(C)—not of perishable seed(D) but of imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:22 Other mss add through the Spirit
  2. 1:22 Other mss omit pure
  3. 1:22 Or fervently

22 Since you have (A)in obedience to the truth (B)purified your souls for a [a](C)sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from [b]the heart, 23 for you have been (D)born again (E)not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring (F)word of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:22 Lit unhypocritical
  2. 1 Peter 1:22 Two early mss read a clean heart