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22 Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth,[a] resulting in sincere brotherly love, love one another constantly from a pure heart. 23 For you have been born again, not from perishable seed but from imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For:

All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory is like a flower of the field.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:22 A few witnesses to the text add through the Spirit. (“Witnesses to the text” mentioned in footnotes may include Greek manuscripts, lectionaries, translations, and quotations in the church fathers.)

22 Now that you have purified(A) yourselves by obeying(B) the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply,(C) from the heart.[a] 23 For you have been born again,(D) not of perishable seed, but of imperishable,(E) through the living and enduring word of God.(F) 24 For,

“All people are like grass,
    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:22 Some early manuscripts from a pure heart