1. Therefore, set aside all malice and all deceitfulness, as well as falseness and envy and every detraction.
2. Like newborn infants, desire the milk of reasonableness without guile, so that by this you may increase unto salvation,
3. if it is true that you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.
4. And approaching him as if he were a living stone, rejected by men, certainly, but elect and honored by God,
5. be also yourselves like living stones, built upon him, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, so as to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6. Because of this, Scripture asserts: "Behold, I am setting in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious. And whoever will have believed in him will not be confounded."
7. Therefore, to you who believe, he is honor. But to those who do not believe, the stone which the builders have rejected, the same has been made into the head of the corner,
8. and a stone of offense, and a rock of scandal, to those who are offended by the Word; neither do they believe, though they also have been built upon him.