Berean Standard Bible

1 Peter 2:3

3now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

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

1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. 2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. 4As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight, 5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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1 Peter 2:3 word by word

εἰ ἐγεύσασθε ὅτι χρηστὸς ὁ κύριος.Read the interlinear

now thatεἰei · ifG1487
you have tastedγεύωgeuomai · to tasteG1089
thatὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
theὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
Lordκύριοςkurios · lord: GodG2962
goodχρηστόςchrēstos · good/kindG5543

Cross-references for 1 Peter 2:3

Psalms 9:10Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
Psalms 24:8Who is this King of Glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Psalms 63:5My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
Zechariah 9:17How lovely they will be, and how beautiful! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.
Hebrews 6:5who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—

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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