22 Now that you have purified(A) yourselves by obeying(B) the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply,(C) from the heart.[a] 23 For you have been born again,(D) not of perishable seed, but of imperishable,(E) through the living and enduring word of God.(F) 24 For,

“All people are like grass,
    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
25     but the word of the Lord endures forever.”[b](G)

And this is the word that was preached to you.

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  1. 1 Peter 1:22 Some early manuscripts from a pure heart
  2. 1 Peter 1:25 Isaiah 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)

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