1 Peter 2:1-10 ▼

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

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

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

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

5 and 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.

6 For 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”;

7 to 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,

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

9 But 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,

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