22 You have purified your hearts by obeying the truth. You have genuine affection for the brothers and sisters. So always love one another intensely extremelydeeply from the heart.

23 You have been given a new birth, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and endures.

24 All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.

25 But the word of our God abides forever. This is the word of good tidings that was preached to you.