[a]Because ye [b]have tasted that the Lord is bountiful.

[c]To whom coming as unto a living stone, disallowed of men, but chosen of God and precious,

Ye also as lively stones, be made a spiritual house, [d]an holy (A)Priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:3 He commendeth that spiritual nourishment for the sweetness and profit of it.
  2. 1 Peter 2:3 Or, do taste.
  3. 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.
  4. 1 Peter 2:5 Going forward in the same similitude, he compareth us now to Priests placed to this end in that spiritual temple, that we should serve him with spiritual worship, that is, with holiness and righteousness: but as the temple, so is the Priesthood built upon Christ, in whom only all our spiritual offerings are accepted.

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