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1 Peter 2:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
1 Peter 2:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 [a]As [b]newborn babes desire that sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby,
3 [c]Because ye [d]have tasted that the Lord is bountiful.
4 [e]To whom coming as unto a living stone, disallowed of men, but chosen of God and precious,
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- 1 Peter 2:2 The second is, that being newly begotten and born of the new seed of the incorrupt word drawing and sucking greedily the same word as milk, we should more and more as it were grow up in that spiritual life. And he calleth it, Sincere, not only because it is a most pure thing, but also that we should take heed of them which corrupt it.
- 1 Peter 2:2 As becometh new men.
- 1 Peter 2:3 He commendeth that spiritual nourishment for the sweetness and profit of it.
- 1 Peter 2:3 Or, do taste.
- 1 Peter 2:4 He goeth on forward in the same exhortation, and useth another kind of borrowed speech, alluding to the Temple. Therefore he saith, that the company of the faithful is as it were a certain holy and spiritual building, built of lively stones, the foundation whereof is Christ, as a lively stone sustaining all that are joined unto him with his living virtue, and knitting them together with himself, although this so great a treasure be neglected of men.
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