22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.*1:22 SBL, NE, and WH from the heart 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For,

"All flesh is like grass,

and all its glory like the flowers of the field;

the grass withers and the flowers fall,

25 but the word of the Lord stands forever."*1:25 Isaiah 40:6–8

And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.