# 1 Peter 2 
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1. So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
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2. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—<a id="3" name="3"></a>
3. if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 
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4. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
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5. you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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6. For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” 
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7. So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” 
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8. and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. 
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9. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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10. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 
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11. Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
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12. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation. 
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13. Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,
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14. or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.
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15. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.
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16. Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
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17. Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. 
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18. Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.
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19. For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.
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20. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.
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21. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
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22. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.
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23. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
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24. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
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25. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. 

(ESV)