1 Peter 2
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| 1 | Therefore putting off all malice and all guile and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, |
| 2 | as a newborn infant you must yearn for the pure rational milk, in order that by it you would grow into preservation, |
| 3 | if "you taste that the Prince is benevolent". |
| 4 | Coming forth to Him a living stone, indeed having been rejected as unfit by men but honored elect before Yahweh, |
| 5 | and yourselves as living stones are built a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to Yahweh through Yahshua Christ. |
| 6 | Wherefore it is contained in the Scripture: "Behold, I place in Zion an honored elect corner stone, and he believing in Him shall by no means be ashamed." |
| 7 | Therefore the honor for you is for those who believe, but they who do not believe: "The stone which the builders have rejected, this has come to be for the head cornerstone" |
| 8 | and "a stumbling stone and a rock of offense." They stumble disobeying the Word, for which also they have been ordained. |
| 9 | But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, so that you should proclaim the virtues for which from out of darkness you have been called into the wonder of His light, |
| 10 | who at one time were "not a people" but now are the people of Yahweh, those who "have not been shown mercy" but are now shown mercy. |
| 11 | Beloved, I exhort as emigrants and sojourners that you abstain from fleshly desires which make war against the soul, |
| 12 | holding your conduct well among the heathens, in order that while they slander you as evil-doers, watching from the good works they may honor Yahweh on the day of visitation. |
| 13 | You must be obedient to every authority created by mankind on account of the Prince, whether to kings as if being superior, |
| 14 | or to governors as if being sent by Him for the punishment of evil-doers but for the praise of those doing good. |
| 15 | Because thusly is the will of Yahweh: doing good to muzzle the ignorance of foolish men, |
| 16 | as free men yet not as if having freedom for a cover for evil, but as servants of Yahweh. |
| 17 | You must honor all, love the brotherhood, fear Yahweh, honor the King. |
| 18 | Servants, subject yourselves with all fear to the masters, not only to the good and reasonable but also to the crooked. |
| 19 | For this is a benefit, if through consciousness of Yahweh one endures suffering grief unrighteously. |
| 20 | For what sort of report, if doing wrong and being beaten you will submit? But if doing good and suffering you submit, this is a benefit before Yahweh. |
| 21 | Indeed, for this you have been called, because Christ also had suffered on your behalf, leaving behind for you an example in order that you would follow in His footsteps, |
| 22 | who had not committed wrong nor had guile been found in His mouth, |
| 23 | who being abused had not abused in return, suffering had not made threats, but surrendered to Him judging righteously. |
| 24 | Who Himself carried your errors on His body upon the cross, that the errors being taken away we should live in righteousness; by whose wounds you are healed. |
| 25 | For you were as sheep wandering astray, but you must return now to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls! |