^{1 Ref} Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

^{2 Ref} as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

^{3 Ref} if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

^{4 Ref} unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious,

^{5 Ref} 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 Ref} 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.

^{7 Ref} For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;

^{8 Ref} and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

^{9 Ref} But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for `God's' own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

^{10 Ref} who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.