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As Newborn Babes

So put aside every trace of malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander and hateful speech; like newborn babies [you should] long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may be nurtured and grow in respect to salvation [its ultimate fulfillment], if in fact you have [already] tasted [a]the goodness and gracious kindness of the Lord.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:3 Lit that the Lord is kind.

Therefore oun, having put away apotithēmi all pas malice kakia and kai all pas deceit dolos and kai hypocrisy hypokrisis and kai envy phthonos and kai slander katalalia of every kind pas, like hōs newborn artigennētos babes brephos, crave epipotheō the ho milk gala that is pure adolos and spiritual logikos, so that hina by en it autos you may grow up auxanō to eis salvation sōtēria, since ei you have tasted geuomai that hoti the ho Lord kyrios is good chrēstos.

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