²²Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: ²³having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth. ²⁴For,

All flesh is as grass,

And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass.

The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

²⁵But the word of the Lord abideth for ever.

And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you.

2Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, ²as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation; ³if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

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1 Peter 1:23: …since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God…

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