1 Peter 2:1-8 ▼

1 Having, therefore, put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings,

2 as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation,

3 if ye tasted that the Lord is gracious;

4 to Whom coming, a Living Stone, rejected, indeed, by men, but with God Elect, Precious,

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

6 Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a Chief Corner-Stone, Elect, Precious; and he who believes on Him shall in nowise be put to shame."

7 To you, therefore, who believe is the preciousness; but to those who disbelieve, a stone which the builders rejected, this was made into a head of a corner,"

8 and "a stone of stumbling, and rock of offense"; who stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which also they were appointed.