YLT - I Peter - 2

2:1  Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

2:2  as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

2:3  if so be ye did taste that the Lord is gracious,

2:4  to whom coming--a living stone--by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,

2:5  and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

2:6  Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: `Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;'

2:7  to you, then, who are believing is the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,

2:8  and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence--who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, --to which also they were set;

2:9  and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

2:10  who were once not a people, and are now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.

2:11  Beloved, I call upon you , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

2:12  having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

2:13  Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest,

2:14  whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good;

2:15  because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men;

2:16  as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

2:17  to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

2:18  The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

2:19  for this is gracious, if because of conscience toward God any one doth endure sorrows, suffering unrighteously;

2:20  for what renown is it , if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure it ? but if, doing good and suffering for it , ye do endure, this is gracious with God,

2:21  for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

2:22  who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,

2:23  who being reviled--was not reviling again, suffering--was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

2:24  who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

2:25  for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.