1:22 You have purified ¹  your souls by obeying the truth ²  in order to show sincere mutual love. ³  So ⁴  love one another earnestly from a pure heart. ⁵  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 ⁶  is like grass

and all its glory like the flower of the grass; ⁷ 

the grass withers and the flower falls off,

1:25 but the word of the Lord ⁸  endures forever. ⁹ 

And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.