Popular Bible Verses from 1 Peter 2

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But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthoode, an holy nation, a people set at libertie, that yee shoulde shewe foorth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenesse into his marueilous light

Who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his body on the tree, that we being dead to sinne, should liue in righteousnesse: by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheepe going astray: but are nowe returned vnto the shepheard and Bishop of your soules.

Which in time past were not a people, yet are nowe the people of God: which in time past were not vnder mercie, but nowe haue obteined mercie.

As newe borne babes desire that sincere milke of the woorde, that yee may growe thereby

Dearely beloued, I beseeche you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstaine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule, And haue your conuersation honest among the Gentiles, that they which speake euill of you as of euill doers, may by your good woorkes which they shall see, glorifie God in the day of visitation.

Yee also as liuely stones, bee made a spirituall house, an holy Priesthoode to offer vp spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ.

Wherefore, laying aside all maliciousnes, and all guile, and dissimulation, and enuie, and all euill speaking

To whome comming as vnto a liuing stone disallowed of men, but chosen of God and precious

As free, and not as hauing the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnesse, but as the seruauntes of God.

For so is the will of God, that by well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men