Modern Literal Version
[1 Peter 2]

     ^2:1 Therefore placing away from yourselves all malice and all treachery, and hypocrisies and envies, and all slanders, ^2:2 as newborn babies, long-for^* the logical milk which has no treachery, in order that you^* may grow in it; ^2:3 if indeed^*, you^* tasted it, that the Lord is kind; ^2:4 coming to whom is a living stone, having indeed been rejected^* by men, but chosen and precious with God.^2:5 You^*, yourselves, like living stones, are also built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ^2:6 Because it contains it in the Scripture, 'Behold, I place a stone in Zion, a cornerstone, chosen and precious, and the one who believes on him should never be ashamed.' {Isa 28:16}^2:7 Therefore, those who believe isthe honor for you^*, but to the disobedient, 'The stone which the builders rejected^*, this became tothem the head of the corner'; {Psa 118:22}^2:8 and, 'A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense';{Isa 8:14}to those who are stumbling in the word, being disobedient, toward which they were also appointed^*. ^2:9 But you^*are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people ^*forGod's ownership, ^*that you^* may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you^* out of darkness into his marvelous light; ^2:10 who previously were not a people, but now are the people of God; who had not been shown-mercy, but now were shown-mercy. {Hos 1:10, 2:23}

     ^2:11 Beloved, I am encouraging you^*, as foreigners and travelers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which are warring against the soul; ^2:12 having your^* good conduct seen among the Gentiles; in order that, in what they are speaking against you^*, as evildoers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, having eye-witnessed things from your^* good works.

     ^2:13 Therefore be^* subject to every human creation because of the Lord: whether to the king, as being superior to you^*; ^2:14 or to governors, as they are sent through him ^*for vengeance onevildoers and praise to the doers of good. ^2:15 Because so is the will of God, doing^* good things to hush the ignorance of foolish men; ^2:16 as free and yet not having your^* freedom as a cover-up of malice, but as bondservants of God. ^2:17 Honor^* all men. Love^** the brotherhood. Fear^* God. Honor^* the king.

     ^2:18 Domestic servants, be subject to your^* masters in all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the crooked. ^2:19 For^* this is grace, if anyone undergoes sorrows, suffering wrongfully because of his consciousness of God. ^2:20 For^* what credit is it, if, when you^* are sinning and are battered for it, you^* will be enduring it? But if, when you^* are doing^* good and are suffering for it, you^* will be enduring it; this is grace with God. ^2:21 For^* you^* were called into this, because Christ also suffered on our behalf, leaving a model for you^*, in order that you^* should follow after his footprints. ^2:22He who did^* no sin, nor was treachery found in his mouth; ^2:23 who, being reviled, was not reviling again in return; when suffering, was not threatening, (but was givinghimself to the one who judges righteously), ^2:24 who, himself, carried our sins in his body upon the tree, in order that we might live to righteousness, having become-dead to our sins; by whose wounds you^* were healed. ^2:25 For^* you^* were being misled like sheep, but now were returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your^* souls. {Isa 53}

Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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