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22 Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart.
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22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.
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23 You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.
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23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
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24 For "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
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24 For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
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25 but the word of the Lord endures forever." That word is the good news that was announced to you.
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25 but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you.
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