^{22 Ref} And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

^{23 Ref} Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

^{24 Ref} For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

^{25 Ref} But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.