1 Peter 2:1-8 ▼

1 Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,

2 as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,

3 if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord [is] good.

4 To whom coming, a living stone, cast away indeed as worthless by men, but with God chosen, precious,

5 yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

6 Because it is contained in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Zion a corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be put to shame.

7 To you therefore who believe [is] the preciousness; but to the disobedient, the stone which the builders cast away as worthless, this is become head of [the] corner,

8 and a stone of stumbling and rock of offence; [who] stumble at the word, being disobedient to which also they have been appointed.