Here is my translation of 1 Peter 1:22-23.
Having been purified in the obedience of the truth for unhypocritical sibling love (philadelphia), from a clean heart love (agape) one another intensely, having been born anew, not by perishable seed, but by the imperishable, living and abiding word of God.
this image comes from page 25 of A Cartoonist’s Guide to John
These verses have deeper meaning for me when I remember that they were written by the same man who denied Jesus at his trial and then was restored by Jesus in John 21:15-19. Jesus shifts between the words phileo and agape in that scene as well.
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