1 PETER 2
1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2 as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;
3 if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
4 unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious,
5 ye also, as living stones, are 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 that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.
7 For you therefore which believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;
8 and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may shew forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
10 which in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
11 Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
12 having your behaviour seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
13 Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
14 or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.
15 For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloke of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
19 For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully.
20 For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted for it, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye shall take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
21 For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:
22 who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
23 who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
25 For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Cross-references
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- 1Eph 4:31, Jas 1:21, Jas 4:11, 1Pe 3:10, Col 3:5–8, Tit 3:3–5, Eph 4:22–25, 1Pe 4:4
- 2Heb 5:12–13, Eph 4:15, 2Pe 3:18, 1Co 3:1–2, Mrk 10:15, 1Co 14:20, Mat 18:3, Job 17:9
- 3Psa 34:8, Heb 6:5–6, Psa 63:5, Psa 24:8, Zec 9:17, Psa 9:10, Sng 2:3
- 4Psa 118:22–23, Act 4:11–12, 1Pe 2:7, Isa 28:16, Luk 20:17–18, Mrk 12:10–11, Zec 3:9, Dan 2:34
- 5Eph 2:20–22, 1Pe 2:9, 1Co 3:9, Rev 5:10, 1Co 3:16, Isa 61:6, Heb 13:15–16, Heb 3:6
- 6Isa 28:16, Rom 9:32–33, 1Pe 2:4, Eph 2:20, Zec 10:4, Rom 10:11, Mrk 12:10, Isa 50:7
- 7Psa 118:22–23, Act 4:11–12, Mrk 12:10–11, Mat 21:42, 1Pe 2:8, Heb 11:31, Jhn 4:42, Heb 4:11
- 8Isa 8:14, 1Co 1:23, 1Pe 2:7, Rom 9:32–33, Rom 9:22, Jud 1:4, 1Th 5:9, 2Pe 2:3
- 9Exo 19:5–6, Deu 7:6, Rev 1:6, Rev 5:10, Isa 61:6, 2Ti 1:9, Deu 26:18–19, Deu 14:2
- 10Hos 2:23, Rom 9:25–26, Hos 1:9–10, Heb 4:16, Rom 11:6–7, Rom 10:19, 1Ti 1:13, 1Co 7:25
- 111Jn 2:15–17, Gal 5:24, 1Pe 4:2, Heb 11:13, Rom 8:13, 1Ch 29:15, Jas 4:1, Rom 12:1
- 121Pe 3:16, Mat 5:16, Tit 2:7–8, Php 2:15–16, 2Co 8:21, 1Th 4:12, 1Ti 4:12, Jas 3:13
- 13Tit 3:1, Rom 13:1–7, 1Ti 2:1–2, Luk 20:25, Pro 24:21, Jer 29:7, Mrk 12:17, Mat 22:21
- 14Rom 13:3–4
- 151Pe 3:17, Tit 2:8, 1Pe 2:12, 1Th 5:18, Mat 7:26, 1Th 4:3, Pro 9:6, Jer 4:22
- 16Gal 5:13, Rom 6:22, Rom 6:18, 1Co 7:22, Jas 1:25, Gal 5:1, Eph 6:6, Jas 2:12
- 17Rom 12:10, Pro 24:21, Rom 13:7, 1Pe 5:5, Php 2:3, Heb 13:1, Exo 20:12, 1Pe 1:22
- 18Tit 2:9–10, Eph 6:5–7, Col 3:22–25, 1Ti 6:1–3, Pro 3:32, Pro 8:13, Gal 5:22, Jas 3:17
- 19Mat 5:10–12, 1Pe 2:20, 1Pe 3:14–17, Luk 6:32, 1Co 15:10, Jhn 15:21, Rom 13:5, 2Ti 1:12
- 201Pe 2:19, 1Pe 3:17, Mat 5:10–12, Luk 6:32, 1Pe 3:14, 1Pe 4:14–16, Mat 5:47, Eph 5:10
- 211Jn 2:6, Mat 16:24, Eph 5:2, Jhn 13:15, 1Jn 3:16, 1Co 11:1, 1Pe 2:24, Php 2:5
- 22Isa 53:9, Heb 4:15, 2Co 5:21, 1Jn 3:5, 1Jn 2:1, Rev 14:5, Heb 7:26–27, Luk 23:41
- 23Isa 53:7, 1Pe 4:19, Heb 12:3, Psa 37:5, Act 4:29, Act 8:32–35, 2Ti 1:12, 1Pe 3:9
- 24Isa 53:4–6, Mat 8:17, Rom 6:11, Rev 22:2, 1Jn 2:29, Jas 5:16, Heb 9:28, Gal 3:13
- 25Isa 53:6, Ezk 34:6, Luk 15:4–6, Act 20:28, Jhn 10:11–16, Isa 40:11, Psa 119:176, Ezk 34:11–16
Topics in this chapter
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Afflictions and Adversities, Atonement, Babes, Bishop, Blindness, Builder, Character, Children, Chosen, or Elected, Church, Citizens, Cloak, Commandments, Conscience, Cornerstone, Darkness, Death, Deceit, Depravity of Man, Election, Envy, Example, Faith, Fear, Fellowship, Fraternity, Glorifying God, God, Government, Grace of God, Holiness, Honesty, House, Hunger, Hypocrisy, Influence, Integrity, Intercession, Jesus, the Christ, Light, Love, Lust, Malice, Meekness, Milk, Mocking, Ordinance, Patience, Praise, Priest, Prophecy, Quotations and Allusions, Regeneration, Repentance, Respect, Revenge, Reverence, Righteous, Rulers, Self-Denial, Servant, Shepherd, Sincerity, Slander, Speaking, Stones, Suffering, Unbelief, War, Word of God, Works, Worldliness, Worship, Zeal, Religious, Zion