1 Peter 1:22-2:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
22 Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere mutual love, love one another intensely from a [pure] heart.(A) 23 You have been born anew,(B) not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God,[a] 24 for:
“All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like the flower of the field;
the grass withers,
and the flower wilts;(C)
25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.”
This is the word that has been proclaimed to you.
Chapter 2
God’s House and People. 1 [b]Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, insincerity, envy, and all slander;(D) 2 like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk so that through it you may grow into salvation, 3 (E)for you have tasted that the Lord is good.[c]
Footnotes
- 1:23 The living and abiding word of God: or, “the word of the living and abiding God.”
- 2:1–3 Growth toward salvation is seen here as two steps: first, stripping away all that is contrary to the new life in Christ; second, the nourishment (pure spiritual milk) that the newly baptized have received.
- 2:3 Tasted that the Lord is good: cf. Ps 34:9.
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