²²Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,^h ²³because you^* have been born again, not from perishable seed but imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. ²⁴For

“all flesh is like grass,

and all its glory like the flower of the grass.

The grass withers and the flower falls off,

²⁵but the word of the Lord endures foreverⁱ.”^j

And this is the word that has been proclaimed to you.

Chosen as Living Stones

2Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, ²like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation, ³if you have tasted that the Lord is kind,^a

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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…

Footnotes

hSome manuscripts have “from a pure heart”
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have been born again”) which is understood as causal
iLiterally “for the age”
jA quotation from Isa 40:6, 8
aA quotation from Ps 34:8