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; 24 for

(F)“All flesh is like grass
    and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
    and the flower falls,
25 (G)but the word of the Lord remains forever.”

And this word (H)is the good news that was preached to you.

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22 By obedience to the truth,[a] having purified yourselves[b] for sincere love of the brothers, love one another(A) earnestly[c] from a pure[d] heart,(B) 23 since 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.(G)[e]

And this is the word that was preached as the gospel to you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:22 Other mss add through the Spirit
  2. 1 Peter 1:22 Or purified your souls
  3. 1 Peter 1:22 Or intensely
  4. 1 Peter 1:22 Other mss omit pure
  5. 1 Peter 1:25 Is 40:6-8