1 Peter 2

¹Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,Selected1 Peter 2:1CopyShareAsk

²As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:Selected1 Peter 2:2CopyShareAsk

³If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.Selected1 Peter 2:3CopyShareAsk

⁴To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,Selected1 Peter 2:4CopyShareAsk

⁵Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.Selected1 Peter 2:5CopyShareAsk

⁶Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.Selected1 Peter 2:6CopyShareAsk

⁷Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,Selected1 Peter 2:7CopyShareAsk

⁸And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.Selected1 Peter 2:8CopyShareAsk

⁹But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:Selected1 Peter 2:9CopyShareAsk

¹⁰Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.Selected1 Peter 2:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;Selected1 Peter 2:11CopyShareAsk

¹²Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.Selected1 Peter 2:12CopyShareAsk

¹³Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;Selected1 Peter 2:13CopyShareAsk

¹⁴Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.Selected1 Peter 2:14CopyShareAsk

¹⁵For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:Selected1 Peter 2:15CopyShareAsk

¹⁶As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.Selected1 Peter 2:16CopyShareAsk

¹⁷Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.Selected1 Peter 2:17CopyShareAsk

¹⁸Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.Selected1 Peter 2:18CopyShareAsk

¹⁹For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.Selected1 Peter 2:19CopyShareAsk

²⁰For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.Selected1 Peter 2:20CopyShareAsk

²¹For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:Selected1 Peter 2:21CopyShareAsk

²²Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:Selected1 Peter 2:22CopyShareAsk

²³Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:Selected1 Peter 2:23CopyShareAsk

²⁴Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.Selected1 Peter 2:24CopyShareAsk

²⁵For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.Selected1 Peter 2:25CopyShareAsk