(A)Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual (B)milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have (C)tasted that the Lord is good.

As you come to him, a living stone (D)rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, (E)you yourselves like living stones are being built up as (F)a spiritual house, to be (G)a holy priesthood, (H)to offer spiritual sacrifices (I)acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture:

(J)“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,
    a cornerstone chosen and precious,
(K)and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

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