20 He was known before the foundation of the world but revealed in the final time for you,
21 who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
22 Since you have purified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere mutual love, love one another intensely from a [pure] heart.
23 You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God,
24 for:“All flesh is like grass,and all its glory like the flower of the field;the grass withers,and the flower wilts;
25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.”This is the word that has been proclaimed to you.