Standing Firm in God’s Word
Peter uses many words here to describe God’s Word: purifier, the truth, rebirthing, living, abiding, word of God, remaining forever, good news, and pure spiritual milk. His desire is that as spiritual exiles in this world, we would crave God’s Word. When we regularly taste how good His Word is, we grow up into salvation and increasingly put away all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. In other words, God did not give us His Word for information but to effect transformation in us!