The Enduring Word

22 Since you (A)have purified your souls in obeying the truth [a]through the Spirit in [b]sincere (B)love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 (C)having been born again, not of [c]corruptible seed but [d]incorruptible, (D)through the word of God which lives and abides [e]forever, 24 because

(E)“All flesh is as grass,
And all [f]the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,
25 (F)But the [g]word of the Lord endures forever.”

(G)Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:22 NU omits through the Spirit
  2. 1 Peter 1:22 Lit. unhypocritical
  3. 1 Peter 1:23 perishable
  4. 1 Peter 1:23 imperishable
  5. 1 Peter 1:23 NU omits forever
  6. 1 Peter 1:24 NU its glory as
  7. 1 Peter 1:25 spoken word

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