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) 24 For

All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory(F) like a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,
25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.[d](G)

And this word is the gospel that was proclaimed to you.

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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
  4. 1:24–25 Is 40:6–8

22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,[a] 23 because you[b] have been born again, not from perishable seed but imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For

“all flesh is like grass,
    and all its glory like the flower of the grass.
The grass withers and the flower falls off,
25     but the word of the Lord endures forever[c].”[d]

And this is the word that has been proclaimed to you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:22 Some manuscripts have “from a pure heart”
  2. 1 Peter 1:23 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have been born again”) which is understood as causal
  3. 1 Peter 1:25 Literally “for the age”
  4. 1 Peter 1:25 A quotation from Isa 40:6, 8