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1 Peter 2:3
3if in fact you have [already] tasted the goodness and gracious kindness of the Lord.
1 Peter 2:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
- New International Version (NIV)now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
- English Standard Version (ESV)if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
- New King James Version (NKJV)if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
Context of 1 Peter 2:3
1So put aside every trace of malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander and hateful speech; 2like newborn babies [you should] long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may be nurtured and grow in respect to salvation [its ultimate fulfillment], if in fact you have [already] tasted the goodness and gracious kindness of the Lord. 4Come to Him [the risen Lord] as to a living Stone which men rejected and threw away, but which is choice and precious in the sight of God. 5You [believers], like living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house for a holy and dedicated priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices [that are] acceptable and pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
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εἰ ἐγεύσασθε ὅτι χρηστὸς ὁ κύριος.Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Peter 2:3
- Psalms 9:10And those who know Your name [who have experienced Your precious mercy] will put their confident trust in You, For You, O Lord, have not abandoned those who seek You.
- Psalms 24:8Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle.
- Psalms 63:5My soul [my life, my very self] is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth offers praises [to You] with joyful lips.
- Zechariah 9:17For how great is God’s goodness and how great is His beauty! And how great [He will make Israel’s] goodliness and [Israel’s] beauty! Grain and new wine will make the young men and virgins flourish.
- Hebrews 6:5and have tasted and consciously experienced the good word of God and the powers of the age (world) to come,
Commentaries on 1 Peter 2:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3If so be ye have tasted - · Seeing ye have tasted. There could be no doubt that they had tasted the goodness of Christ who were born again, of incorruptible seed, and whose hearts were purified by the truth, and who had like precious faith with the apostles themselves. That the Lord is gracious - ̔ ̔ · From the similarity of the letters, many MSS. and several of the fathers have read, ̔ , the Lord is Christ, or Christ is the Lord. This seems to refer to…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious - Or rather, as Doddridge renders it, “Since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” The apostle did not mean to express any doubt on the subject, but to state that, since they had had an experimental acquaintance with the grace of God, they should desire to increase more and more in the knowledge and love of him. On the use of the word “taste,” see the notes at Hebrews 6:4.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3now that you have tasted that the Lord is good: These words come from Psalm 34:8. Peter quotes this psalm again in 1 Peter 3:10–12.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. Peter alludes to Psa 34:8. The first "tastes" of God's goodness are afterwards followed by fuller and happier experiences. A taste whets the appetite [Bengel]. gracious--Greek, "good," benignant, kind; as God is revealed to us in Christ, "the Lord" (1Pe 2:4), we who are born again ought so to be good and kind to the brethren (1Pe 1:22). "Whosoever has not tasted the word to him it is not sweet it has not reached the heart; but to them who have…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Peter 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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