Popular Bible Verses from 1 Peter 2

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But you are A CHOSEN PEOPLE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR GOD’S own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light

and He Himself brought our sins in His body up on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by His wounds you were healed. For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

for you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY, but now you have RECEIVED MERCY.

and like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation

Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul. Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God on the day of visitation.

you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander

And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by people, but is choice and precious in the sight of God

Act as free people, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bond-servants of God.

For such is the will of God, that by doing right you silence the ignorance of foolish people.