Popular Bible Verses from 1 Peter 2

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But y’all are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy ethnic group, a people of God’s own possession, that y’all may proclaim the virtues of ʜɪᴍ who called y’all out of darkness into ʜɪꜱ marvelous light.

“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By his wounds, y’all were healed.” For y’all were “like sheep going astray,” but now y’all have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of y’all’s souls.

Formerly, not a people, now the people of God. Formerly not receiving mercy, but now receiving mercy.

y’all should crave pure spiritual milk like newborn babies, that by it y’all may grow up in salvation

Beloved, I beg y’all as foreigners and immigrants to abstain from fleshly desires that war against the soul, maintaining such an excellent way of life among the ethnic groups that, though they accuse y’all of being evildoers, they may see y’all’s excellent deeds and glorify God in the day of visitation.

y’all also, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Therefore, putting away all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all slander

As y’all come to him, the living stone, rejected by humans but chosen and precious to God

Live as free people, not using freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God.

For this is the will of God, that doing good would silence the ignorance of foolish humans.