Popular Bible Verses from 1 Peter 2

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But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer 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, that by it you may grow up into salvation

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious

Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.