21 who through him are believing in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,[a] 23 because you[b] have been born again, not from perishable seed but imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:22 Some manuscripts have “from a pure heart”
  2. 1 Peter 1:23 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have been born again”) which is understood as causal