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Living Stones

So get rid of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all lashon ha-ra. As newborn babes, long for pure spiritual milk,[a] so that by it you may grow toward salvation— now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. [b] As you come to Him, a living stone[c] rejected by men but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house—a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Messiah Yeshua.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:2 Or the pure milk of the word; Grk. logikos.
  2. 1 Peter 2:4 cf. Ps. 34:8(34:8 LXX).
  3. 1 Peter 2:4 cf. Ps. 118:22; Isa. 28:16.