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As Living Stones, God’s Chosen Family

Therefore, (A)laying aside all [a]malice and all deceit and [b]hypocrisy and [c]envy and all [d](B)slander, (C)like newborn babies, long for the [e](D)pure [f]milk of the word, so that by it you may (E)grow [g]in respect to salvation, if you have (F)tasted [h](G)the kindness of the [i]Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:1 Or wickedness
  2. 1 Peter 2:1 Plural nouns
  3. 1 Peter 2:1 Plural nouns
  4. 1 Peter 2:1 Plural nouns
  5. 1 Peter 2:2 Or unadulterated
  6. 1 Peter 2:2 Or spiritual (Gr logikos) milk
  7. 1 Peter 2:2 Or up to salvation
  8. 1 Peter 2:3 Lit that the Lord is kind
  9. 1 Peter 2:3 In OT, Yahweh, cf. Ps 34:8

Putting away therefore all [a]wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, long for the [b]spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation; if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:1 Or, malice. 1 Cor. 14:20
  2. 1 Peter 2:2 Greek belonging to the reason. Compare Rom. 12:1.