1 Peter 2:1-6 ▼

1 Therefore, set aside all malice and all deceitfulness, as well as falseness and envy and every detraction.

2 Like newborn infants, desire the milk of reasonableness without guile, so that by this you may increase unto salvation,

3 if it is true that you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.

4 And approaching him as if he were a living stone, rejected by men, certainly, but elect and honored by God,

5 be also yourselves like living stones, built upon him, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, so as to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

6 Because of this, Scripture asserts: “Behold, I am setting in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious. And whoever will have believed in him will not be confounded.”