1PE-2:1  Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and

hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,



1PE-2:2  As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, 
that

ye may grow thereby:



1PE-2:3  If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.



1PE-2:4  To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed 
indeed

of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious,



1PE-2:5  Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual 
house,

an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable 
to

God by Jesus Christ.



1PE-2:6  Wherefore 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.



1PE-2:7  Unto 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,



1PE-2:8  And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even 
to

them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto 
also

they were appointed.



1PE-2:9  But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an

holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the

praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his

marvellous light:



1PE-2:10  Which in time past [were] not a people, but [are] now 
the

people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have 
obtained

mercy.



1PE-2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and 
pilgrims,

abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;



1PE-2:12  Having 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.



1PE-2:13  Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the 
Lord's

sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;



1PE-2:14  Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him 
for

the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do

well.



1PE-2:15  For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may 
put

to silence the ignorance of foolish men:



1PE-2:16  As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloak of

maliciousness, but as the servants of God.



1PE-2:17  Honour all [men]. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. 
Honour

the king.



1PE-2:18  Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear;

not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.



1PE-2:19  For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience 
toward

God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.



1PE-2:20  For 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.



1PE-2:21  For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also

suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his

steps:



1PE-2:22  Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:



1PE-2:23  Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he

suffered, he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that

judgeth righteously:



1PE-2:24  Who 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.



1PE-2:25  For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned

unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.





 

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