[a]As [b]newborn babes desire that sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby,

[c]Because ye [d]have tasted that the Lord is bountiful.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:2 The second is, that being newly begotten and born of the new seed of the incorrupt word drawing and sucking greedily the same word as milk, we should more and more as it were grow up in that spiritual life. And he calleth it, Sincere, not only because it is a most pure thing, but also that we should take heed of them which corrupt it.
  2. 1 Peter 2:2 As becometh new men.
  3. 1 Peter 2:3 He commendeth that spiritual nourishment for the sweetness and profit of it.
  4. 1 Peter 2:3 Or, do taste.

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