1Pe 1:22-23, 1Jo 2:29, 3:3 | ESV | STEP | Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart ,

1 Peter 1:22-23

22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for ^aa sincere brotherly love, ^blove one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 ^csince you have been born again, ^dnot of perishable seed but of imperishable, through ^ethe living and abiding word of God;

1 John 2:29

29 If you know that ^fhe is righteous, you may be sure that ^geveryone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

1 John 3:3

3 And everyone who ^hthus hopes in him ⁱpurifies himself as he is pure.