1 Peter 2:1-7 ▼

1 WHEREFORE putting far away wickedness of every kind, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all backbitings,

2 as new-born babes desire earnestly the unadulterated milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

3 if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

4 Whom approaching, as the living stone, rejected indeed of men, but elect of God, and honourable,

5 ye also, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices, well pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, ?Behold, I lay in Sion a cornerstone, elect, precious, and the believer on him shall never be confounded.?

7 By you therefore who believe is he honoured: but respecting the disobedient, ?the stone which the builders rejected, this very stone is become the head of the corner,