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1So put aside all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
2Like newborn babies, long for pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow,[#2:2 grow ¦ grow into salvation ANT CT PCK]
3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
4As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in the sight of God,
5you yourselves, like living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.[#2:5 house, ¦ house, to be CT]
6For it says in Scripture,[#2:6 For it says in Scripture ¦ For Scripture says PCK ¦ Therefore it also says in Scripture TR]
“Behold, I lay in Zion a stone,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and no one who believes in him will ever be put to shame.”
7This precious value is for you who believe, but to those who are disobedient,[#2:7 are disobedient ¦ do not believe CT]
“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”
8and,
“A stone of stumbling,
and a rock of offense.”
By disobeying the word they stumble, which is what they were appointed to do.
9But you are a chosen lineage, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
11Beloved, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul,
12keeping your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God on the day of his visitation.
13Therefore, be subject to every human institution for the sake of the Lord, whether to the king as supreme,[#2:13 Therefore, be ¦ Be CT]
14or to governors as those who are sent by him to punish evildoers and to praise those who do good.
15For it is God's will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.
16Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as an excuse to do evil; live as servants of God.
17Give honor to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, and honor the king.
18Servants, submit to your masters with complete respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are cruel.
19For there is favor upon anyone who endures pain while suffering unjustly for the sake of conscience toward God.
20What credit do you get if you endure when you sin and are beaten for it? But if you endure when you do good and suffer for it, this finds favor with God.
21For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving an example so that you could follow in his footsteps.[#2:21 us, leaving an example so that you 64% ¦ us, leaving an example so that we TR 10.3% ¦ you, leaving an example so that you CT 10.2%]
22He committed no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth.
23When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten but entrusted himself to him who judges justly.
24He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to our sins and live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
25For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.[#2:25 your ¦ our PCK]