¹ Therefore, placing away from yourselves all malice and all treachery, and hypocrisies and envies, and all slanders,

² as newborn babies, long-for° the logical milk which is treachery-free, in-order-that you° may grow in it

³ (if indeed$, you° tasted it, that the Lord is kind),

⁴ coming to whom is a living stone, have indeed been rejected$ by men, but chosen and precious with God.

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.

⁶ Because it contains it in the Scripture, ‘Behold, I place a stone in Zion, a cornerstone, chosen and precious, and the one believing upon him should never be ashamed.’ {Isa 28:16}

⁷ Therefore, in the ones who believe is the honor for you°, but to the disobedient, ‘The stone which the ones building rejected$, this became to you° the head of the corner’; {Psa 118:22}

⁸ and, ‘A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense’; {Isa 8:14} who are stumbling in the word, being disobedient, toward which they were also appointed$.

⁹ But you° are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people $for God’s ownership, $that you° may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you° out-of darkness into his marvelous light;

¹⁰ the ones 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}

¹¹ Beloved, I am encouraging you°, as foreigners and travelers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which are warring against the soul,

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, after they eye-witnessed things from your° good works.

¹³ Therefore, be° subject to every human creation because of the Lord, whether to a king, as being superior to you°,

¹⁴ or to governors, as they are sent through him $for vengeance on evildoers and praise to the doers of good,

¹⁵ because so is the will of God, doing$ good things to hush the ignorance of foolish men,

¹⁶ as free and yet not having your° freedom as a cover-up of malice, but as bondservants of God.

¹⁷ Honor° all men. Love

¹⁸ Domestic servants, stay being subject to your° masters in all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the crooked.

¹⁹ For$ this is grace, if anyone undergoes sorrows, suffering wrongfully because of his consciousness of God.

²⁰ For$ what credit is it, if, when sinning and being battered for it, you° will be enduring it? But if, when doing$ good and suffering for it, you° will be enduring it, this is grace with God.

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.

²² He who did$ no sin, nor was treachery found in his mouth;

²³ who, being reviled, was not reviling again in return; when suffering, was not threatening (but was giving himself to the one who is judging righteously);

²⁴ who, himself, carried our sins in his body upon the tree, in-order-that we might live to righteousness after we became-dead to our sins; of whom by his wounds you° were healed.

²⁵ For$ you° were being misled like sheep, but now were returned over to the Shepherd and Overseer of your° souls. {Isa 53}