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| [2:1] So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. |
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| [2:2] Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— |
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| [2:3] if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. |
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| [2:4] As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, |
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| [2:5] you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. |
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[2:6] For it stands in Scripture:
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,
a cornerstone chosen and precious,
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” |
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[2:7] So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,
“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,” |
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[2:8] and
“A stone of stumbling,
and a rock of offense.”
They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. |
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| [2:9] But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. |
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| [2:10] Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. |
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| [2:11] Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. |
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| [2:12] Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation. |
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| [2:13] Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, |
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| [2:14] or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. |
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| [2:15] For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. |
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| [2:16] Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. |
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| [2:17] Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. |
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| [2:18] Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. |
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| [2:19] For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. |
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| [2:20] For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. |
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| [2:21] For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. |
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| [2:22] He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. |
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| [2:23] When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. |
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| [2:24] He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. |
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| [2:25] For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. |
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