1 Peter 2:1-10 ▼

1 Therefore, rid yourselves of every kind of evil and deception, hypocrisy, jealousy, and every kind of slander.

2 Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.

3 Surely you have tasted that the Lord is good!

4 As you come to him, the living stone who was rejected by people but was chosen and precious in God's sight,

5 you, too, as living stones, are building yourselves up into a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, so that you may offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus, the Messiah.

6 This is why it says in Scripture: |Look! I am laying a chosen, precious cornerstone in Zion. The one who believes in him will never be ashamed.|

7 Therefore he is precious to you who believe, but to those who do not believe, |The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,

8 a stone they stumble over and a rock they trip on.| They keep on stumbling because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.