1 Peter 2

¹Laying away therefore all malice, and all guile, and simulations, and envies, and all detractions,

²as infants even now born, reasonable, milk without guile desire ye, that in it you may grow unto salvation.

³If yet you have tasted that our Lord is sweet.

⁴Unto whom approaching, a living stone, of men indeed reprobated, but of God elect and made honourable:

⁵be ye also yourselves super-edified as it were living stones, spiritual houses, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual hosts, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

⁶For the which cause the Scripture containeth, Behold I put in Sion a principal corner-stone elect, precious. And he that shall believe in him, shall not be confounded.

⁷To you therefore that believe, honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made into the head of the corner:

⁸and a stone of offence, & a rock of scandal, to them that stumble at the word, neither do believe wherein also they are put.

⁹But you are an elect generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people of purchase: that you may declare his virtues, which from darkness hath called you into his marvelous light.

¹⁰Which sometime not a people: but now the people of God. Which not having obtained mercy: but now having obtained mercy.

¹¹My dearest I beseech you as strangers & pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

¹²having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that in that wherein they misreport of you as of malefactors, by the good works considering you, they may glorify God in the day of visitation.

¹³Be subject therefore to every human creature for God: whether it be to king, as excelling:

¹⁴or to rulers as sent by him to the revenge of malefactors, but to the praise of the good:

¹⁵for so is the will of God, that doing well you may make the ignorance of unwise men to be dumb.

¹⁶as free, and not as having the freedom for a cloak of malice, but as the servants of God.

¹⁷Honour all men. Love the fraternity. Fear God. Honour the king.

¹⁸Servants be subject in all fear to your masters, not only to the good & modest, but also to the wayward.

¹⁹For this is thank, if for conscience of God a man sustain sorrows, suffering unjustly.

²⁰For what glory is it, if sinning, and buffeted you suffer? But if doing well you sustain patiently, this is thank before God.

²¹For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you may follow his steps.

²²Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.

²³Who when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not: but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.

²⁴Who himself bare our sins in his body upon the tree: that dead to sins, we may live to justice. By whose stripes you are healed.

²⁵For you were as sheep straying: but you be converted now to the Pastor & Bishop of your souls.