22 Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth,  * so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other,  * from a pure  * heart love one another constantly,  *,*23 because 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 a flower of the grass.

The grass withers, and the flower falls,

25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.*,*

And this word is the gospel that was proclaimed to you.