1 PETER 1:1 THEREFORE, RID YOURSELVES OF ALL MALICE AND ALL DECEIT, HYPOCRISY, ENVY, AND SLANDER OF EVERY KIND.
1 PETER 1:2 LIKE NEWBORN BABIES, CRAVE PURE SPIRITUAL MILK, SO THAT BY IT YOU MAY GROW UP IN YOUR SALVATION,
1 PETER 1:3 NOW THAT YOU HAVE TASTED THAT THE LORD IS GOOD.
1 PETER 1:4 AS YOU COME TO HIM, THE LIVING STONE--REJECTED BY HUMANS BUT CHOSEN BY GOD AND PRECIOUS TO HIM--
1 PETER 1:5 YOU ALSO, LIKE LIVING STONES, ARE BEING BUILT INTO A SPIRITUAL HOUSE TO BE A HOLY PRIESTHOOD, OFFERING SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES ACCEPTABLE TO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.
1 PETER 1:6 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.'
1 PETER 1:7 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,'
1 PETER 1:8 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.
1 PETER 1:9 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.
1 PETER 1:10 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.
1 PETER 1:11 DEAR FRIENDS, I URGE YOU, AS FOREIGNERS AND EXILES, TO ABSTAIN FROM SINFUL DESIRES, WHICH WAGE WAR AGAINST YOUR SOUL.
1 PETER 1:12 LIVE SUCH GOOD LIVES AMONG THE PAGANS THAT, THOUGH THEY ACCUSE YOU OF DOING WRONG, THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD DEEDS AND GLORIFY GOD ON THE DAY HE VISITS US.
1 PETER 1:13 SUBMIT YOURSELVES FOR THE LORD'S SAKE TO EVERY HUMAN AUTHORITY: WHETHER TO THE EMPEROR, AS THE SUPREME AUTHORITY,
1 PETER 1:14 OR TO GOVERNORS, WHO ARE SENT BY HIM TO PUNISH THOSE WHO DO WRONG AND TO COMMEND THOSE WHO DO RIGHT.
1 PETER 1:15 FOR IT IS GOD'S WILL THAT BY DOING GOOD YOU SHOULD SILENCE THE IGNORANT TALK OF FOOLISH PEOPLE.
1 PETER 1:16 LIVE AS FREE PEOPLE, BUT DO NOT USE YOUR FREEDOM AS A COVER-UP FOR EVIL; LIVE AS GOD'S SLAVES.
1 PETER 1:17 SHOW PROPER RESPECT TO EVERYONE, LOVE THE FAMILY OF BELIEVERS, FEAR GOD, HONOR THE EMPEROR.
1 PETER 1:18 SLAVES, IN REVERENT FEAR OF GOD SUBMIT YOURSELVES TO YOUR MASTERS, NOT ONLY TO THOSE WHO ARE GOOD AND CONSIDERATE, BUT ALSO TO THOSE WHO ARE HARSH.
1 PETER 1:19 FOR IT IS COMMENDABLE IF SOMEONE BEARS UP UNDER THE PAIN OF UNJUST SUFFERING BECAUSE THEY ARE CONSCIOUS OF GOD.
1 PETER 1:20 BUT HOW IS IT TO YOUR CREDIT IF YOU RECEIVE A BEATING FOR DOING WRONG AND ENDURE IT? BUT IF YOU SUFFER FOR DOING GOOD AND YOU ENDURE IT, THIS IS COMMENDABLE BEFORE GOD.
1 PETER 1:21 TO THIS YOU WERE CALLED, BECAUSE CHRIST SUFFERED FOR YOU, LEAVING YOU AN EXAMPLE, THAT YOU SHOULD FOLLOW IN HIS STEPS.
1 PETER 1:22 HE COMMITTED NO SIN, AND NO DECEIT WAS FOUND IN HIS MOUTH.'
1 PETER 1:23 WHEN THEY HURLED THEIR INSULTS AT HIM, HE DID NOT RETALIATE; WHEN HE SUFFERED, HE MADE NO THREATS. INSTEAD, HE ENTRUSTED HIMSELF TO HIM WHO JUDGES JUSTLY.
1 PETER 1:24 HE HIMSELF BORE OUR SINS' IN HIS BODY ON THE CROSS, SO THAT WE MIGHT DIE TO SINS AND LIVE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS; 'BY HIS WOUNDS YOU HAVE BEEN HEALED.'
1 PETER 1:25 For 'you were like sheep going astray,' but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.