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.