1 Peter 2:1-6 ▼

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”;