1 Peter 1:22

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

Since the word of the Lord endures forever, the source of our love can be sincere and not a love that perishes. (v23-25)

This is how Peter begins the explanation of the Living Stone:
Our love for one another will create a desire to remove “all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.” 1 Peter 2:1

The desire to remove these things can’t be our chief objective, but instead becomes a byproduct as we step further into the light and live by increasingly more truth. As we “tasted that the Lord is good,” we want Him to fill more of our lives.

v4: Coming to Him, a living stone – rejected by men but chosen and valuable to God – (v5) you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.