²²Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for ^ba sincere brotherly love, ^clove one another earnestly from a pure heart, ²³^dsince you have been born again, ^enot of perishable seed but of imperishable, through ^fthe living and abiding word of God; ²⁴for

^g“All flesh is like grass

and all its glory like the flower of grass.

The grass withers,

and the flower falls,

²⁵^hbut the word of the Lord remains forever.”

And this word ⁱis the good news that was preached to you.

A Living Stone and a Holy People

2^jSo put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. ²^kLike newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual ^lmilk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— ³if indeed you have ^mtasted that the Lord is good.

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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…

Cross references

b Rom. 12:9; See Heb. 13:1
c 1 Tim. 1:5
dver. 3; [John 3:3; James 1:18]
e John 1:13
f Heb. 4:12
g James 1:10, 11; Cited from Isa. 40:6, 8
h[Matt. 24:35]
i Isa. 40:9
j Eph. 4:22, 25, 31; Col. 3:8
kSee Matt. 18:3
l 1 Cor. 3:2; Heb. 5:12, 13
m Ps. 34:8; Heb. 6:5