Popular Bible Verses from 1 Peter 2

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But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. For you were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul. Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that, though they malign you as evildoers, they may see your honorable deeds and glorify God when he comes to judge.

like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.

Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God's sight, and

As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.

For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorance of the foolish.