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1 Where­fore lay­ing aside all mal­ice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and en­vies, and all evil speak­ings, 2 As new­born babes, de­sire the sin­cere milk of the word, that ye may grow there­by: 3 If so be ye have tast­ed that the Lord is gra­cious. 4 To whom com­ing, as unto a liv­ing stone, dis­al­lowed in­deed of men, but cho­sen of God, and pre­cious, 5 Ye al­so, as live­ly stones, are built up a spir­i­tu­al house, an holy priest­hood, to of­fer up spir­i­tu­al sac­ri­fices, ac­cept­able to God by Je­sus Christ. 6 Where­fore also it is con­tained in the scrip­ture, Be­hold, I lay in Sion a chief cor­ner stone, elect, pre­cious: and he that be­lieveth on him shall not be con­found­ed. 7 Unto you there­fore which be­lieve he is pre­cious: but unto them which be dis­obe­di­ent, the stone which the builders dis­al­lowed, the same is made the head of the cor­ner, 8 And a stone of stum­bling, and a rock of of­fence, even to them which stum­ble at the word, be­ing dis­obe­di­ent: where­un­to also they were ap­point­ed. 9 But ye are a cho­sen gen­er­a­tion, a roy­al priest­hood, an holy na­tion, a pe­cu­liar peo­ple; that ye should shew forth the prais­es of him who hath called you out of dark­ness into his mar­vel­lous light: 10 Which in time past were not a peo­ple, but are now the peo­ple of God: which had not ob­tained mer­cy, but now have ob­tained mer­cy. 11 Dear­ly beloved, I be­seech you as strangers and pil­grims, ab­stain from flesh­ly lusts, which war against the soul; 12 Hav­ing your con­ver­sa­tion hon­est among the Gen­tiles: that, where­as they speak against you as evil­do­ers, they may by your good works, which they shall be­hold, glo­ri­fy God in the day of vis­i­ta­tion. 13 Sub­mit your­selves to ev­ery or­di­nance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto gov­er­nors, as unto them that are sent by him for the pun­ish­ment of evil­do­ers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well do­ing ye may put to si­lence the ig­no­rance of fool­ish men: 16 As free, and not us­ing your lib­er­ty for a cloke of ma­li­cious­ness, but as the ser­vants of God. 17 Hon­our all men. Love the broth­er­hood. Fear God. Hon­our the king. 18 Ser­vants, be sub­ject to your mas­ters with all fear; not only to the good and gen­tle, but also to the froward. 19 For this is thankwor­thy, if a man for con­science to­ward God en­dure grief, suf­fer­ing wrong­ful­ly. 20 For what glo­ry is it, if, when ye be buf­fet­ed for your faults, ye shall take it pa­tient­ly? but if, when ye do well, and suf­fer ­for it, ye take it pa­tient­ly, this is ac­cept­able with God. 21 For even here­un­to were ye called: be­cause Christ also suf­fered for us, leav­ing us an ex­am­ple, that ye should fol­low his steps: 22 Who did no sin, nei­ther was guile found in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was re­viled, re­viled not again; when he suf­fered, he threat­ened not; but com­mit­ted himself to him that jud­geth righ­teous­ly: 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, be­ing dead to sins, should live unto righ­teous­ness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 25 For ye were as sheep go­ing astray; but are now re­turned unto the Shep­herd and Bish­op of your souls.