1 Peter 2: 1-10
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   Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
   
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   Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
   
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   now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
   
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   As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—
   
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   you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house[a] to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
   
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For in Scripture it says:
 

"See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
will never be put to shame."
     
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Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,
   

"The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,"
   
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   and,
   

"A stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall."
    They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.
   
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   But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
     
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   Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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