1So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,
2Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
3If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:
4To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;
5You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
6Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.
7And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building;