1 Peter 2:1-10 ▼

1 Therefore, having put off all malice and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil-speakings,

2 like newborn babies, long for the reasonable, unspoiled milk, so that in it you? may grow up into salvation,

3 if you? tasted that the Lord is good.

4 Coming to Him, a living stone, indeed rejected by men but chosen and precious with God,

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

6 Therefore it is contained in Scripture: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one believing on Him shall never be put to shame.”

7 Therefore the preciousness is to you? who are believing. But to those disbelieving, “The stone that those building rejected, this became into the head of the corner,”

8 and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

9 But you? are a chosen kindred, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you? may proclaim the excellencies of the One having called you? out of darkness into His marvelous light,

10 who once were not a people, but now are the people of God—those not having received mercy, but now having received mercy.