1 Peter 2:1–17
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Chosen as Living Stones
2Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, 2like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation, 3if you have tasted that the Lord is kind,a 4to whom you are drawing near, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in the sight of God. 5And you yourselves, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6For it stands in scripture,
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”b
7Therefore the honor is for you who believe, but for those who refuse to believe,
“The stone that the builders rejected,
this one has become the cornerstonec,”
8and
“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,”d
who stumble because they* disobey the word to which also they were consigned. 9But you are a chosen race,e a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light, 10who once were not a people, but now are the people of God, the ones who were not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy.f
11Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your* soul, 12maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in the things in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation.
Submission to Established Authority
13Subject yourselves to every human authority for the sake of the Lord, whether to a kingg as having supreme authority, 14or to governors as those sent out by him for the punishment of those who do evil and the praise of those who do good. 15For the will of God is as follows: by* doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish people. 16Live as free persons, and not using your* freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God. 17Honor all people, love the community of believers, fear God, honor the king.h
Footnotes
- aA quotation from Ps 34:8
- bA quotation from Isa 28:16
- cLiterally “into the head of the corner”
- dA quotation from Isa 8:14
- *Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“disobey”) which is understood as causal
- eOr “people,” or “generation,” or “nation”
- fThis verse contains quotations from Hos 1:6, 9; 2:23
- *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- gOr “to the emperor”
- *Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“doing good”) which is understood as means
- *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- hOr “the emperor”
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