1 Peter 1:22-25
Holman Christian Standard Bible
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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- 1 Peter 1:22 Other mss add through the Spirit
- 1 Peter 1:22 Or purified your souls
- 1 Peter 1:22 Or intensely
- 1 Peter 1:22 Other mss omit pure
- 1 Peter 1:25 Is 40:6-8
1 Peter 1:22-25
Lexham English Bible
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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- 1 Peter 1:22 Some manuscripts have “from a pure heart”
- 1 Peter 1:23 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have been born again”) which is understood as causal
- 1 Peter 1:25 Literally “for the age”
- 1 Peter 1:25 A quotation from Isa 40:6, 8
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