1 Peter 1:22
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.
What it says
Purified by obedience to the truth, believers must love one another deeply from a pure heart.
What it is doing
This verse opens the section by turning new identity into communal love.
In context
22Since 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. 23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24For, 25but the word of the Lord stands forever.”