Aug. 31, 2025

1Pe 2:1  Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 

1Pe 2:2  Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 

1Pe 2:3  now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. 

1Pe 2:4  As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 

1Pe 2:5  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. 

1Pe 2:6  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." 

1Pe 2:7  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," 

1Pe 2:8  and, "A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for. 

1Pe 2:9  But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 

1Pe 2:10  Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 

1Pe 2:11  Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. 

1Pe 2:12  Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.