²² Now that you have taken care to purify your souls through your submission to the truth, you can experience real love for each other. So love each other deeply from a [pure] heart. ²³ You have been reborn—not from seed that eventually dies but from seed that is eternal—through the word of God that lives and endures forever. ²⁴ For as Isaiah said,

All life is like the grass,
    and its glory like a flower;
The grass will wither and die,
    and the flower falls,
²⁵ But the word of the Lord will endure forever.

This is the word that has been preached to you.

(1 Peter 1:22-25 The Voice Translation)

2 So get rid of hatefulness and deception, of insincerity and jealousy and slander. ² Be like newborn babies, crying out for spiritual milk that will help you grow into salvation ³ if you have tasted and found the Lord to be good. ⁴ Come to Him—the living stone—who was rejected by people but accepted by God as chosen and precious.

(1 Peter 2: 1-4 The Voice Translation)