Popular Bible Verses from First Peter 2

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But you [are] a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that you may show forth the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light

who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree that having died to sins, we may live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed; for you were as sheep going astray, but now you turned back to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

who [were] once not a people, but [are] now the people of God; who had not found mercy, but now have found mercy.

as newborn babies, desire the reasonable, unspoiled milk, so that you may grow up to salvation

Beloved, I call on [you], as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires that war against the soul, having your behavior right among the nations, so that whenever they speak against you as evildoers, seeing [your] good works, they may glorify God in [the] day of inspection.

and you yourselves are built up as living stones [into] a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings

to whom coming—a living stone—having indeed been disapproved of by men, but with God—choice [and] precious

as free, and not having freedom as the cloak of evil, but as servants of God

because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men