1 Peter 1:22-24

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²²Now 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] ²³You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.^[d] ²⁴For

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

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