# 1 Peter 2 (New King James Version)
Our Inheritance Through Christ's Blood

##### Chapter 2
###### 1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,  
###### 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,  
###### 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord _is_ gracious.The Chosen Stone and His Chosen People

###### 4 Coming to Him _as to_ a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God _and_ precious,  
###### 5 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.  
###### 6 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."

###### 7 Therefore, to you who believe, _He is_ precious; but to those who are disobedient,
"The stone which the builders rejected  
Has become the chief cornerstone,"

###### 8 and
"A stone of stumbling  
And a rock of offense."
They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.

###### 9 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;  
###### 10 who once _were_ not a people but _are_ now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.Living Before the World

###### 11 Beloved, I beg _you_ as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,  
###### 12 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.Submission to Government

###### 13 Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme,  
###### 14 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.  
###### 15 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men--  
###### 16 as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.  
###### 17 Honor all _people._ Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.Submission to Masters

###### 18 Servants, _be_ submissive to _your_ masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.  
###### 19 For this _is_ commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.  
###### 20 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.  
###### 21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:

###### 22 "Who committed no sin,  
Nor was deceit found in His mouth";

###### 23 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;  
###### 24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed.  
###### 25 For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.