Popular Bible Verses from 1st Peter 2

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But ye be a chosen kin [or ye be a kind chosen], a kingly priesthood, holy folk, a people of purchasing, that ye tell the virtues of him, that called you from darknesses into his wonderful light.

And he himself bare [or suffered] our sins in his body on a tree, that we be dead to sins, and live to rightwiseness, by whose wan wound ye be healed. For ye were as sheep erring, but ye be now turned to the shepherd [or but ye be converted now to the shepherd], and bishop of your souls.

Which sometime were not a people of God, but now ye be the people of God; which had not mercy, but now ye have mercy.

as now born young children, reasonable, without guile, covet ye milk [of full teaching], that in it ye wax into health

Most dear, I beseech you, as comelings [or as guests], and pilgrims, to abstain you from fleshly desires, that fight against the soul; and have ye your conversation [or your life] good among heathen men, that in that thing that they backbite of you, as of mis-doers, they behold you of good works, and glorify God in the day of visitation.

and ye yourselves as quick stones, be ye above builded into spiritual houses, and an holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Therefore put ye away all malice, and all guile, and feignings [or simulations], and envies, and all backbitings [or detractions]

And nigh ye to him, that is a living stone, and reproved of men, but chosen of God, and honoured

As free men, and not as having freedom the covering of malice, but as the servants of God.

For so is the will of God, that ye do well, and make the unknowing-ness of unprudent [or unwise] men to be dumb.