1 Peter 1:22–2:3

²²Since you have ^ain obedience to the truth ^bpurified your souls for a love of the brothers ^cwithout hypocrisy, fervently love one another from ¹the heart,

²³for you have been ^aborn again ^bnot of corruptible seed but incorruptible, that is, through the living and enduring ^cword of God.

²⁴For,

“^aAll flesh is like grass,

And all its glory like the flower of grass.

The grass withers,

And the flower falls off,

^25aBut the word of the Lord endures forever.”

And this is ^bthe word which was ¹proclaimed to you as good news.

CHAPTER 2

As Living Stones, God’s Chosen Family

¹Therefore, ^alaying aside all ¹malice and all deceit and ²hypocrisy and ³envy and all ^4bslander,

^2alike newborn babies, long for the ^1bpure ²milk of the word, so that by it you may ^cgrow ³in respect to salvation,

³if you have ^atasted ^1bthe kindness of the ²Lord.