1. 1 Peter 1:22–2:3 (ESV)
  2. Structure and outline

The connection of 1 Peter 1:22—2:3 to 1 Peter 2:4–10

1 Peter 1:22–2:3 (ESV)

22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

Peter’s reference to being “born again” (1 Peter 1:23) and thus the need for believers to act as “newborn infants” (1 Peter 2:2), that is, being a household, morphs naturally into the imagery of being a house—better, being stones making up the house.