1 Peter 2

¹Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

²as newborn babies, desire the reasonable, unspoiled milk, so that you may grow up to salvation,

³if it so be that you tasted that the LORD is good,

⁴to whom coming—a living stone—having indeed been disapproved of by men, but with God—choice and precious,

⁵and you yourselves are built up as living stones into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁶For this reason, also, it is contained in the Writing: “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on Him may not be put to shame”;

⁷to you, then, who are believing—the preciousness; but to the unbelieving, the stone that the builders disapproved of—this One has become the head of the corner,

⁸and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense—who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving—to which they were also set.

⁹But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that you may show forth the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light,

¹⁰who were once not a people, but are now the people of God; who had not found mercy, but now have found mercy.

¹¹Beloved, I call on you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires that war against the soul,

¹²having your behavior right among the nations, so that whenever they speak against you as evildoers, seeing your good works, they may glorify God in the day of inspection.

¹³Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the LORD, whether to a king, as the highest,

¹⁴whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evildoers, and a praise of those doing good;

¹⁵because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men—

¹⁶as free, and not having freedom as the cloak of evil, but as servants of God;

¹⁷give honor to all; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.

¹⁸Servants, be subject in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the crooked;

¹⁹for this is grace: if anyone endures sorrows because of conscience toward God, suffering unrighteously;

²⁰for what renown is it, if sinning and being battered, you endure it? But if, doing good and suffering for it, you endure, this is grace with God,

²¹for to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving to you an example, that you may follow His steps,

²²who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in His mouth,

²³who being reviled—was not reviling again, suffering—was not threatening, and was committing Himself to Him who is judging righteously,

²⁴who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree that having died to sins, we may live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed;

²⁵for you were as sheep going astray, but now you turned back to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

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