1. Having therefore left all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all murmurings,
2. as newborn babes, desire the rational milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby in health;
3. if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is benevolent;
4. coming unto whom (is the living Stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious),
5. ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, well pleasing to God by Jesus, the Christ.
6. Therefore, also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion the chief corner stone, chosen, precious; and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.
7. Unto you, therefore, who believe he is precious; but unto those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8. and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, even to those who stumble at the word, not obeying in that for which they were ordained.