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22 Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth[a] so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply[b] from the heart.[c] 23 You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.[d] 24 For

‘All flesh is like grass
    and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
    and the flower falls,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:22 Other ancient authorities add through the Spirit
  2. 1 Peter 1:22 Or constantly
  3. 1 Peter 1:22 Other ancient authorities read a pure heart
  4. 1 Peter 1:23 Or through the word of the living and enduring God

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