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1 Peter 2:3
3Do this, because you have already begun to know how kind the Lord is to you.
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 you must refuse to do any evil things. Do not tell lies to deceive people. Do not be hypocrites. Do not be jealous of other people. Do not say bad things against other people. 2Instead, you should want to learn about God more and more. New babies always want their mothers' milk, which makes them grow strong. God's true message is like good food that will make you strong in your spirits. Then you will continue to grow as believers so that God saves you. Do this, because you have already begun to know how kind the Lord is to you. 4So come to the Lord Jesus. He is like a big stone that a builder uses to build a house. But he is alive. People decided that he was not important. So they refused him. But God had chosen him. To God, Jesus is very valuable. 5You yourselves are also like stones that are alive. God is using you, like stones, to build a house where his Spirit lives. You will serve him like his special priests who offer sacrifices to him. God will be happy with the spiritual offerings that you give to him, because you belong to Jesus Christ.
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Cross-references for 1 Peter 2:3
- Psalms 9:10Everyone who knows you, Lord, trusts in you. You will never turn away from anyone who comes to you for help.
- Psalms 24:8Who is this great king? He is the Lord, who is strong and powerful. He is the Lord, who wins against his enemies.
- Psalms 63:5You make me very happy, better than a feast of good food. I will sing happy songs to praise you.
- Zechariah 9:17The people will be beautiful and good. The young people will become strong when they eat good bread. The young women will become strong when they drink new wine.
- Hebrews 6:5They have understood that God's message is good for them. They have seen powerful things that belong to the future time.
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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