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Yearn For His Word So That You May Grow

Having then laid-aside all badness[a], and all deceit and hypocrisies and jealousies, and all slanders— yearn like newborn babies for the deceitless[b] milk of-the-Word[c] in order that by it you may grow in[d] [your] salvation, if [e] you tasted that the Lord is good—

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:1 Or, evilness, malice.
  2. 1 Peter 2:2 Or, pure, unadulterated.
  3. 1 Peter 2:2 Or, pertaining-to-the-Word. Or, pertaining-to-the-real-nature-of-things, and thus, ‘spiritual’ milk.
  4. 1 Peter 2:2 Or, in relation to, into.
  5. 1 Peter 2:3 That is, assuming that.

Therefore, rid yourselves(A) of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander(B) of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,(C) so that by it you may grow up(D) in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.(E)

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