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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1PE.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:22 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">from a pure heart</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1PE.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1PE.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1PE.1.24"><span class="content">&#8220;All people are like grass,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1PE.1.24"><span class="content">and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1PE.1.24"><span class="content">the grass withers and the flowers fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1PE.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1PE.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">but the word of the Lord endures forever.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:25 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1PE.1.25"><span class="content">And this is the word that was preached to you.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1PE.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1PE.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1PE.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Living Stone and a Chosen People</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1PE.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1PE.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As you come to him, the living Stone&#8212;rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">into a temple of the Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For in Scripture it says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I lay a stone in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">a chosen and precious cornerstone,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">and the one who trusts in him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">will never be put to shame.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:6 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 28:16</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">&#8220;The stone the builders rejected</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">has become the cornerstone,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 118:22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">&#8220;A stone that causes people to stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">and a rock that makes them fall.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:14</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">They stumble because they disobey the message&#8212;which is also what they were destined for.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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