Looking to help your church and family stay connected to the Word while social distancing?
Check out our free church library, church online resources, and family resources.
1 Peter 1:22–2:3
22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,h 23 because you* 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⌋i.”j
And this is the word that has been proclaimed to you.
2 Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, 2 like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation, 3 if you have tasted that the Lord is kind,a
| h | Some 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 |
| i | Literally “for the age” |
| j | |
| a | A quotation from Ps 34:8 |
A service of Faithlife / Logos Bible Software
Sign Up to Use Our
Free Bible Study Tools
Sign up for the Verse of the Day
Get beautiful Bible art delivered to your inbox. We’ll send you a new verse every day to download or share.