1 Peter 2:1-10 ▼

1 Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,

2 As new born babes, long for the sincere milk pertaining to the word, that ye might be nourished with it:

3 If ye have tasted that the Lord is good.

4 To whom approaching, a living stone, truly disapproved of by men, and chosen by God, highly valued,

5 And ye yourselves are built, as living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to bring up spiritual sacrifice; acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

6 Wherefore also it holds in the writing, Behold, I place in Zion a corner stone, chosen, highly valued: and he believing on him shall not be ashamed.

7 Therefore honour to you believing: and to the unbelieving, the stone which the builders disapproved of has become the head of the corner,

8 And a stone of stumble, and rock of offence, they disbelieving the word stumble: to which also they were set.

9 And ye a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for acquisition; so that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him having called you out of darkness into his wonderful light:

10 Who once not a people, and now the people of God: they not commiserated, and now commiserated.