The Living Stone and a Holy People

Therefore, rid yourselves of(A) all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.(B) Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word,[a](C) so that by it you may grow up into your salvation, if you have tasted(D) that the Lord is good.[b](E)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:2 Or desire pure spiritual milk
  2. 2:3 Ps 34:8

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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