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But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own* possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light.

who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live to righteousness; by whose wounds you have been healed. For you kept going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. 2 Some ancient manuscripts omit into salvation 3 Some ancient manuscripts read the Lord is Christ 6 Quoted from Is. 28:16 7 Greek the ones who build 7 Greek the head of the corner 7 Quoted from Ps. 118:22 8 Quoted from Is. 8:14 8 Greek who 9 The expression His own is supplied to the text based on context for the sake of clarity 19 The word finds is supplied to the text based on context for the sake of clarity. So also v. 20 20 The prepositional phrase for it is supplied to the text based on context for the sake of clarity

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

Like newborn infants, long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it, you may grow up into salvation*

Beloved, I exhort you as temporary residents and foreigners to deliberately refrain from fleshly desires, which wage war against your soul, keeping your conduct among the Gentiles honourable, so that in the thing in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by observing your good deeds, glorify God on the day of visitation.

you yourselves, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Therefore, put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

As you come near to Him—the living Stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in the sight of God

Live as free persons, yet do not use your freedom as a cover for evil, but as servants of God.

For this is the will of God: that by doing good, you put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.