22 Because you have been made pure by obeying the truth, with the result that you sincerely love your fellow believers, continue to love each other earnestly and sincerely/wholeheartedly. 23 I ask you to do this, because you now have a new life [MET]. It was not by means of something that will perish that you received this new life. Instead, it was by means of something that will last forever; that is, by believing the life-giving and enduring message of God. 24 We know that this is true because, as the prophet Isaiah wrote,

All people will die [SIM], like grass dies. And all the greatness/honor that people have will not last forever,

like the flowers [SIM] that grow up in the grass do not last long.

The grass withers and the flowers die,

25 but God’s message endures/lasts forever.

This message that endures/lasts is the message about Christ that was proclaimed to you.