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1 Peter 2:1-7

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1 Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,
1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
2 As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:
2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
3 If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.
3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
4 Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men but chosen and made honourable by God:
4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—
5 Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore it is said in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious. And he that shall believe in him shall not be confounded.
6 For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”
7 To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:
7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
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