21 Through him you have confidence in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.d

22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren, love one another earnestly from the heart. 23 You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;