² Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,^(A) so that by it you may grow up^(B) in your salvation, ³ now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.^(C)

The Living Stone and a Chosen People

⁴ As you come to him, the living Stone^(D)—rejected by humans but chosen by God^(E) and precious to him—

²⁴ “He himself bore our sins”^(A) in his body on the cross,^(B) so that we might die to sins^(C) and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”^(D)

¹⁸ For Christ also suffered once^(A) for sins,^(B) the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.^(C) He was put to death in the body^(D) but made alive in the Spirit.^(E)