22 Now that you have obeyed the truth and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart.

23 For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that cannot perish—by the living and everlasting word of God.

24 For "All human life is like grass,and all its glory is like a flower in the grass. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,