²²Now that your obedience to the truth has purified your souls, you can have true love for your Christian brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply with all your heart.ⁿ ²³You have been born again, and this new life did not come from something that dies, but from something that cannot die. You were born again through God’s living message that continues forever. ²⁴The Scripture says,

“All people are like the grass,

and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.

The grass dies and the flowers fall,

²⁵but the word of the Lord will live forever.”

And this is the word that was preached to you.

Jesus Is the Living Stone

2So then, rid yourselves of all evil, all lying, hypocrisy, jealousy, and evil speech. ²As newborn babies want milk, you should want the pure and simple teaching. By it you can mature in your salvation, ³because you have already examined and seen how good the Lord is.

Read in Logos

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

nwith all your heart Some Greek copies read “with a pure heart.”