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  • So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech.
  • Our Inheritance Through Christ’s Blood

    Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,
  • Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment,
  • as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow [a]thereby,
  • now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness.
  • if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

  • Living Stones for God’s House

    You are coming to Christ, who is the living cornerstone of God’s temple. He was rejected by people, but he was chosen by God for great honor.
  • The Chosen Stone and His Chosen People

    Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,
  • And you are living stones that God is building into his spiritual temple. What’s more, you are his holy priests.a Through the mediation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifices that please God.
  • you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • As the Scriptures say,
    “I am placing a cornerstone in Jerusalem,b
    chosen for great honor,
    and anyone who trusts in him
    will never be disgraced.”c
  • Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,
    “Behold, I lay in Zion
    A chief cornerstone, elect, precious,
    And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.”
  • Yes, you who trust him recognize the honor God has given him.d But for those who reject him,
    “The stone that the builders rejected
    has now become the cornerstone.”e
  • Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who [b]are disobedient,
    “The stone which the builders rejected
    Has become the chief cornerstone,”
  • And,
    “He is the stone that makes people stumble,
    the rock that makes them fall.”f
    They stumble because they do not obey God’s word, and so they meet the fate that was planned for them.
  • and
    “A stone of stumbling
    And a rock of offense.”
    They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.
  • But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests,g a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
  • But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
  • “Once you had no identity as a people;
    now you are God’s people.
    Once you received no mercy;
    now you have received God’s mercy.”h
  • who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.
  • Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls.
  • Living Before the World

    Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
  • Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and they will give honor to God when he judges the world.i
  • having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.

  • Respecting People in Authority

    For the Lord’s sake, submit to all human authority — whether the king as head of state,
  • Submission to Government

    Therefore submit yourselves to every [c]ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme,
  • or the officials he has appointed. For the king has sent them to punish those who do wrong and to honor those who do right.
  • or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good.
  • It is God’s will that your honorable lives should silence those ignorant people who make foolish accusations against you.
  • For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men —
  • For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.
  • as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for [d]vice, but as bondservants of God.
  • Respect everyone, and love the family of believers.j Fear God, and respect the king.
  • Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

  • Slaves

    You who are slaves must submit to your masters with all respect.k Do what they tell you — not only if they are kind and reasonable, but even if they are cruel.
  • Submission to Masters

    Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.
  • For God is pleased when, conscious of his will, you patiently endure unjust treatment.
  • For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.
  • Of course, you get no credit for being patient if you are beaten for doing wrong. But if you suffer for doing good and endure it patiently, God is pleased with you.
  • For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.
  • For God called you to do good, even if it means suffering, just as Christ sufferedl for you. He is your example, and you must follow in his steps.
  • For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for [e]us, leaving [f]us an example, that you should follow His steps:
  • He never sinned,
    nor ever deceived anyone.m
  • “Who committed no sin,
    Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;
  • He did not retaliate when he was insulted,
    nor threaten revenge when he suffered.
    He left his case in the hands of God,
    who always judges fairly.
  • who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously;
  • He personally carried our sins
    in his body on the cross
    so that we can be dead to sin
    and live for what is right.
    By his wounds
    you are healed.
  • who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness — by whose [g]stripes you were healed.
  • Once you were like sheep
    who wandered away.
    But now you have turned to your Shepherd,
    the Guardian of your souls.
  • For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and [h]Overseer of your souls.

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