Love and the Abiding Word

22Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from the heart,

23having been born again, not from perishable seed but imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God.

24because all flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of grass; the grass withered, and the flower fell off.

25But the word of the Lord remains forever." And this is the word that was proclaimed as good news to you.