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,