BORN THROUGH THE LIVING AND ENDURING WORD OF GOD

1 Peter 1:22-2:3 / Keywords 1:22

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.

1:22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.[b] 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For,

“All people are like grass,

    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;

the grass withers and the flowers fall,

25     but the word of the Lord endures forever.”[c]

And this is the word that was preached to you.

2:1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Footnotes

b. 1 Peter 1:22 Some early manuscripts from a pure heart

c. 1 Peter 1:25 Isaiah 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)

 

1. Our faith in Jesus purifies and transforms us so that we have sincere love for each other in our hearts. God gave us His one and only Son because He so loved the world. Our lives change when we love one another deeply, not with mere words, but from our hearts. We should get rid of all malice and deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind so that we may walk in love.

 

2. We have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of what is imperishable through the living and enduing word of God. Nothing in this world, not even human glory, endures forever. Only the word of the Lord endures forever. We must acknowledge that it is His word that allows us to grow. As we grow in our salvation, we will grow into the image of God and in our love for one another.

 

Prayer Lord, thank you for giving us new birth through Your word. Help us to crave Your word so that by it we may grow up in our salvation. Help us to love one another deeply from our hearts just as You have loved us.

One Word Love one another deeply