1 Peter 2

1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,Cross-references: 1Sam 18:8 · Job 36:13 · Ps 32:2 · Ps 34:13 · Ps 37:1 · Ps 73:3 · +44 more

2as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,Cross-references: 2Sam 23:5 · Job 17:9 · Ps 19:7 · Prov 4:18 · Hos 6:3 · Hos 14:5 · +13 more

3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.Cross-references: Ps 9:10 · Ps 24:8 · Ps 34:8 · Ps 63:5 · Song 2:3 · Zech 9:17 · +1 more

4Come to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.Cross-references: Ps 118:22 · Isa 8:14 · Isa 28:16 · Isa 42:1 · Isa 55:3 · Jer 3:22 · +24 more

5You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.Cross-references: Ps 50:14 · Ps 50:23 · Ps 141:2 · Isa 61:6 · Isa 66:21 · Hos 14:2 · +22 more

6Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious. He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”Cross-references: Ps 40:14 · Ps 89:19 · Isa 28:16 · Isa 41:11 · Isa 42:1 · Isa 45:16 · +17 more

7For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”Cross-references: Ps 118:22 · Song 5:9 · Isa 28:5 · Hag 2:7 · Zech 4:7 · Matt 13:44 · +18 more

8and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.Cross-references: Ex 9:16 · Isa 8:14 · Isa 57:14 · Luke 2:34 · Rom 9:22 · Rom 9:32 · +6 more

9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Deut 4:20 · Deut 7:6 · Deut 10:15 · Deut 14:2 · Deut 26:18 · +38 more

10In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.Cross-references: Hos 1:9 · Hos 2:23 · Rom 9:25 · Rom 10:19 · Rom 11:6 · Rom 11:30 · +3 more

11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,Cross-references: Gen 23:4 · Gen 47:9 · Lev 25:23 · 1Chr 29:15 · Ps 39:12 · Ps 119:19 · +23 more

12having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.Cross-references: Gen 13:7 · Ps 37:14 · Ps 50:23 · Isa 10:3 · Matt 5:11 · Matt 5:16 · +33 more

13Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,Cross-references: Prov 17:11 · Prov 24:21 · Jer 29:7 · Matt 22:21 · Mark 12:17 · Luke 20:25 · +6 more

14or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.Cross-references: Rom 13:3

15For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.Cross-references: Deut 32:6 · Job 2:10 · Job 5:16 · Ps 5:5 · Ps 107:42 · Prov 9:6 · +16 more

16Live as free people, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.Cross-references: Matt 23:13 · John 8:32 · John 15:22 · Rom 6:18 · Rom 6:22 · 1Cor 7:22 · +9 more

17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.Cross-references: Gen 20:11 · Gen 22:12 · Gen 42:18 · Ex 20:12 · Lev 19:32 · 1Sam 15:30 · +18 more

18Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.Cross-references: Ps 101:4 · Prov 3:32 · Prov 8:13 · Prov 10:32 · Prov 11:20 · 2Cor 10:1 · +7 more

19For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.Cross-references: Job 21:27 · Ps 35:19 · Ps 38:19 · Ps 69:4 · Ps 119:86 · Matt 5:10 · +10 more

20For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.Cross-references: Matt 5:10 · Matt 5:47 · Matt 26:67 · Mark 14:65 · Luke 6:32 · Rom 12:1 · +7 more

21For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,Cross-references: Ps 85:13 · Matt 10:38 · Matt 11:29 · Matt 16:24 · Mark 8:34 · Luke 9:23 · +23 more

22who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”Cross-references: Isa 53:9 · Matt 27:4 · Matt 27:19 · Matt 27:23 · Luke 23:41 · Luke 23:47 · +9 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

23When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Ps 7:11 · Ps 10:14 · Ps 31:5 · Ps 37:5 · Ps 38:12 · +25 more

24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.Cross-references: Ex 28:38 · Lev 16:22 · Lev 22:9 · Num 18:22 · Deut 21:22 · Ps 38:4 · +37 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

25For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.Cross-references: Ps 23:1 · Ps 80:1 · Ps 119:176 · Song 1:7 · Isa 40:11 · Isa 53:6 · +14 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →