Popular Bible Verses from I Peter 2

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But you are a chosen stock, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession of God, that you might proclaim His excellent virtues, Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light

Who Himself bore our sins within His own body on the tree, so that we, being dead to sins, may live unto righteousness; by Whose stripes you were healed. For you were as sheep going astray, but you have now returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

Who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who had not received mercy, but now have received mercy.

As newborn babes, yearn after the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to restrain yourselves from fleshly lusts which war against the soul; Having your way of life honest among the Gentiles so that although they speak against you as evil doers, through having witnessed your good works, they may glorify God in the day of visitation.

You also, as living stones, are being built upas a spiritual house—a holy priesthood—to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Therefore, having put away all wickedness, and all deceit, and hypocrisies and jealousies, and all slanders

To Whom coming, as to a living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious

As free, and not using your freedom as a cover for evil, but as bondslaves of God.

For so is the will of God, that by doing well yourselves, you may put to silence the ignorance of senseless men