1:22 You have purified ²  your souls by obeying the truth ³  in order to show sincere mutual love. ⁴  So ⁵  love one another earnestly from a pure heart. ⁶  1:23 You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God. 1:24 For

all flesh ⁷  is like grass

and all its glory like the flower of the grass; ⁸ 

the grass withers and the flower falls off,

1:25 but the word of the Lord ⁹  endures forever. ¹⁰ 

And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.