Wherefore, having put away once for all every wickedness and every craftiness, and hypocrisies and envies, and all slanderings, as newborn infants do, intensely yearn for the unadulterated spiritual milk in order that by it you may be nourished and make progress in [your] salvation in view of the fact that you tasted that the Lord is kind, loving, and benevolent; toward whom we are constantly drawing near, himself in character a Living Stone, indeed by men repudiated after they had tested Him