The Enduring Word

(Isaiah 40:6–8)

[Since] you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers love one another deeply, from a pure heart.[fn] 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 flesh [is] like grass,

and all its glory like [the] flowers of the field;

the grass withers and the flowers fall,

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but the word of [the] Lord stands vvv vvv forever.”[fn]

And this is the word that was proclaimed to you. 2