1 Peter, Chapter 2
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Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
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as newborn babies, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that you+ may grow by it to salvation;
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if you+ have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
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to whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious,
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you+ 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.
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Because it is contained in Scripture, Look, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: And he who believes on him will not be put to shame.
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For you+ therefore who believe is the preciousness: but for those who disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;
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and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: to which also they were appointed.
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But you+ are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, that you+ may show forth the excellencies of him who called you+ out of darkness into his marvelous light:
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who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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Beloved, I urge you+ as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly desires, which war against the soul;
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having your+ behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, in what they speak against you+ as evildoers, they may by your+ good works, which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
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or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
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For so is the will of God, that by doing good you+ should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
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as free, and not using your+ freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as slaves of God.
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Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
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Household slaves, [be] in subjection to your+ masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
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For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endures griefs, suffering wrongfully.
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For what glory is it, if, when you+ sin, and are buffeted [for it], you+ will take it patiently? But if, when you+ do good, and suffer [for it], you+ will take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
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For hereunto were you+ called: because Christ also suffered for you+, leaving you+ an example, that you+ should follow his steps:
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who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
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who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, did not threaten; but delivered [himself] to him who judges righteously:
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who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you+ were healed.
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For you+ were like sheep that go astray; but have now been returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your+ souls.
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