But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him Who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.
See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in Him will never be put to shame.
As you come to Him, the living Stone- rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to Him- you also, like living stones are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Like newbor babies, crave pure spiritual mik, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
All men are like grass, and their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
But just as He Who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: ” Be holy, because I am holy.”
Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, for though I have sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind.
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.