23since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable,through the living and abiding word of God;
The term since introduces Peter's motivation for the command in the previous verse to love each other with Jesus’ kind of love. The fact that they had been “born again” (cf 1 Peter 1:3) dictates that their conduct has to show it.
23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;