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Peter's First Letter, Chapter 2
{2:1} Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit,
hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, {2:2} as newborn babies,
long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby, {2:3}
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: {2:4} coming to
him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God,
precious. {2:5} You also, as living stones, are built up as a
spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God through Yeshua the Messiah. {2:6}
Because it is contained in Scripture,
"Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious:
He who believes in him will not be disappointed."[1]
{2:7} For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who
are disobedient,
"The stone which the builders rejected,
has become the chief cornerstone,"[2]
{2:8} and,
"a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense."[3]
For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they
were appointed. {2:9} But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a
holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim
the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his
marvelous light: {2:10} who in time past were no people, but now are
God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
{2:11} Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from
fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; {2:12} having good behavior
among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as
evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in
the day of visitation. {2:13} Therefore subject yourselves to every
ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
{2:14} or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and
for praise to those who do well. {2:15} For this is the will of God,
that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish
men: {2:16} as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of
wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
{2:17} Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the
king. {2:18} Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear;
not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked. {2:19} For it
is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of
conscience toward God. {2:20} For what glory is it if, when you sin,
you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently
endure suffering, this is commendable with God. {2:21} For to this you
were called, because Messiah also suffered for us, leaving [4>]you[<4]
an example, that you should follow his steps, {2:22} who did not sin,
"neither was deceit found in his mouth."[5] {2:23} Who, when he was
cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but
committed himself to him who judges righteously; {2:24} 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.
{2:25} For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to
the Shepherd and [6>]Overseer[<6] of your souls.
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Footnotes:
[1] {2:6} Isaiah 28:16
[2] {2:7} Psalm 118:22
[3] {2:8} Isaiah 8:14
[4] {2:21} TR reads "us" instead of "you"
[5] {2:22} Isaiah 53:9
[6] {2:25} "Overseer" is from the Greek episkopon, which can mean
overseer, curator, guardian, or superintendent.
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