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22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently, 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever. 24 For,

“All flesh is like grass,
    and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass.
The grass withers, and its flower falls;
25     but the Lord’s word endures forever.”Isaiah 40:6-8

This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

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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