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New American Standard Bible 2020

1 Peter 2:3-12

3if you have 1tasted 23the kindness of the Lord.

4And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been 4rejected by people, but is 5choice and precious in the sight of God, 56you also, as living stones, 7are being built up as a 8spiritual house for a holy 9priesthood, to 10offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6For this is contained in 11Scripture: “12Behold, I am laying in Zion a choice stone, a 13precious cornerstone, And the one who believes in 14Him will not be 15put to shame.” 716This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for unbelievers, “17A stone which the builders 18rejected, This became the 19chief cornerstone,” 8and, “20A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”; 21for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, 22and to this they were also appointed.

9But you are 23a chosen people, a royal 24priesthood, a 25holy nation, 26a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you 27out of darkness into His marvelous light; 1028for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

1129Beloved, 30I urge you as 31foreigners and strangers to abstain from 32fleshly lusts, which wage 33war against the soul. 1234Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they 35slander you as evildoers, they may 36because of your good deeds, as they observe them, 37glorify God 38on the day of 39visitation.

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Peter 2:3 Heb 6:5 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Peter 2:3 Lit that the Lord is kind ↩
  3. 3. 1 Peter 2:3 Ps 34:8; Titus 3:4 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Peter 2:4 1 Pet 2:7 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Peter 2:4 Lit chosen; or elect ↩
  6. 6. 1 Peter 2:5 1 Cor 3:9 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Peter 2:5 Or allow yourselves to be built up; or build yourselves up ↩
  8. 8. 1 Peter 2:5 Gal 6:10; 1 Tim 3:15 ↩
  9. 9. 1 Peter 2:5 Is 61:6; 66:21; 1 Pet 2:9; Rev 1:6 ↩
  10. 10. 1 Peter 2:5 Rom 15:16; Heb 13:15 ↩
  11. 11. 1 Peter 2:6 Or a scripture ↩
  12. 12. 1 Peter 2:6 Is 28:16; Rom 9:32, 33; 10:11; 1 Pet 2:8 ↩
  13. 13. 1 Peter 2:6 Eph 2:20 ↩
  14. 14. 1 Peter 2:6 Or it ↩
  15. 15. 1 Peter 2:6 Or disappointed ↩
  16. 16. 1 Peter 2:7 2 Cor 2:16; 1 Pet 2:7, 8 ↩
  17. 17. 1 Peter 2:7 Ps 118:22; Matt 21:42; Luke 2:34 ↩
  18. 18. 1 Peter 2:7 1 Pet 2:4 ↩
  19. 19. 1 Peter 2:7 Lit head of the corner ↩
  20. 20. 1 Peter 2:8 Is 8:14 ↩
  21. 21. 1 Peter 2:8 1 Cor 1:23; Gal 5:11 ↩
  22. 22. 1 Peter 2:8 Rom 9:22 ↩
  23. 23. 1 Peter 2:9 Is 43:20f; Deut 10:15 ↩
  24. 24. 1 Peter 2:9 Is 61:6; 66:21; 1 Pet 2:5; Rev 1:6 ↩
  25. 25. 1 Peter 2:9 Ex 19:6; Deut 7:6 ↩
  26. 26. 1 Peter 2:9 Ex 19:5; Deut 4:20; 14:2; Titus 2:14 ↩
  27. 27. 1 Peter 2:9 Is 9:2; 42:16; Acts 26:18; 2 Cor 4:6 ↩
  28. 28. 1 Peter 2:10 Hos 1:10; 2:23; Rom 9:25; 10:19 ↩
  29. 29. 1 Peter 2:11 Heb 6:9; 1 Pet 4:12 ↩
  30. 30. 1 Peter 2:11 Rom 12:1 ↩
  31. 31. 1 Peter 2:11 Lev 25:23; Ps 39:12; Eph 2:19; Heb 11:13; 1 Pet 1:17 ↩
  32. 32. 1 Peter 2:11 Rom 13:14; Gal 5:16, 24 ↩
  33. 33. 1 Peter 2:11 James 4:1 ↩
  34. 34. 1 Peter 2:12 2 Cor 8:21; Phil 2:15; Titus 2:8; 1 Pet 2:15; 3:16 ↩
  35. 35. 1 Peter 2:12 Acts 28:22 ↩
  36. 36. 1 Peter 2:12 Or as a result of ↩
  37. 37. 1 Peter 2:12 Matt 5:16; 9:8; John 13:31; 1 Pet 4:11, 16 ↩
  38. 38. 1 Peter 2:12 Is 10:3; Luke 19:44 ↩
  39. 39. 1 Peter 2:12 I.e., Christ’s coming again in judgment ↩

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