22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for *Rom. 12:9;See Heb. 13:1a sincere brotherly love, *1 Tim. 1:5love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 *ver. 3;[John 3:3;James 1:18] since you have been born again, *John 1:13not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through *Heb. 4:12the living and abiding word of God; 24 for

*James 1:10,11;Cited from Isa. 40:6,8"All flesh is like grass

and all its glory like the flower of grass.

The grass withers,

and the flower falls,

25 *[Matt. 24:35] but the word of the Lord remains forever."

And this word *Isa. 40:9is the good news that was preached to you.