1. Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2. as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;
3. if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
4. unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious,
5. ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6. Because it is contained in scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame.