1 Peter 2

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Readers’ Version

Literal Version

2 So then, get rid of all malice and deceit, and hypocrisy and envy, and slandering others. 2 Just like newborn babies long for pure milk so they’ll grow, you should cultivate a thirst for what’ll help you grow as people who are rescued, 3 since you’ve tasted that Yahweh is good.[ref]

2:3: Psa 34:8.

2 Therefore having _put _away all malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all slanders,

2 like newborn babies long the logical unadulterated milk, in _order _that by it you _all _may _be _grown for salvation,

3 if you _all _tasted that the master is good.

2:4 The vital building-stone and the believers

4 As you chosen people approach the living building-stone (which was rejected by humans yet chosen and honoured by God), 5 you’re being built into a temple and joining a holy group of priests to offer up spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) the messiah, 6 because it’s written in the scriptures:

‘Look, I’m placing a building-stone in Tsiyon (Zion),

the vital cornerstone that’s chosen and honoured,

and anyone who believes in him certainly won’t be disgraced.’[ref]

7 To all of you who believe, this cornerstone is valuable, but to those who don’t believe:

‘The building-stone which the builders rejected

ended up becoming the vital cornerstone.’[ref]

8 and he’ll be:

‘A stone that people stumble over

and a rock that upsets people.’[ref]

They stumble because they won’t believe in the message—that is what was appointed for them.

9 But you believers are a chosen tribe, a group of royal priests, a holy nation,[ref] a people group that God has procured,[ref] so that you can tell others about the virtues of the one[ref] who called you out of darkness and into his marvellous light.[ref] 10 Previously you weren’t a people group, but now you’re God’s people—previously you hadn’t been shown mercy, but now you have been.[ref]

2:6: Isa 28:16 (LXX).

2:7: Psa 118:22.

2:8: Isa 8:14-15.

2:9: Exo 19:5-6; Isa 43:20 (LXX).

2:9: Exo 19:5; Deu 4:20; 7:6; 14:2; Tit 2:14.

2:9: Isa 43:21.

2:9: Isa 9:2.

2:10: Hos 2:23.

4 To whom approaching a_ living _stone, on _one _hand having _been _rejected by humans, on _the _other _hand chosen by god, honoured,

5 also yourselves as living stones you _all _are _being _built, a_ spiritual _house, into a_ holy _priesthood to _offer _up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to_god through Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) chosen _one /messiah.

6 Because it _is _contained in in _scripture:
Behold, I _am _laying a_stone in Siōn/(Tsiyyōn), a_cornerstone chosen honoured, and the one believing in him, by _no _means may_ not _be _disgraced.

7 Therefore is the value to _you _all, the ones believing, but to _disbelieving ones The_stone which the ones building rejected, this was _become to the_head of_the_corner,

8 and:
A_stone of _stumbling, and a_rock of _offense, who are _stumbling disbelieving in _the message, to which also they _were _appointed.

9 But you _all are a_ chosen _race:
a_royal priesthood, a_ holy _nation, a_people for his_procuring, so _that the virtues you _all _may _proclaim _out, of _the one having _called you _all out _of darkness, to the marvellous light of _him,

10 who once were not a_people, but now are the_people of_god, the ones not having _been _shown _mercy, and now having _been _shown _mercy.

2:11 Battling worldly desires

11 Dear friends, I’m urging you as travellers and foreigners to keep away from the world’s temptations, which are in a battle against your soul. 12 Even as you, friends, live among the world’s people, maintain your good conduct so that when they slander you by calling you ‘evil’, at the time of God’s judgement they’ll have to honour god when they see your good behaviour.