Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,(A) so that by it you may grow up(B) in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.(C)

The Living Stone and a Chosen People

As you come to him, the living Stone(D)—rejected by humans but chosen by God(E) and precious to him—

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As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,

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