22 Since you have (A)purified your souls (B)in obedience to the truth for a (C)sincere love of the brothers and sisters, fervently love one another from [a]the heart, 23 for you have been (D)born again (E)not of seed which is perishable, but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring (F)word of God. 24 For,

(G)All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory is like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
And the flower falls off,
25 (H)But the word of the Lord endures forever.”

And this is (I)the word which was [b]preached to you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:22 Two early mss a pure heart
  2. 1 Peter 1:25 Lit preached as good news to you

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