Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, Eph 4:31Jas 1:21Jas 4:111Pe 3:10Col 3:5-8Tit 3:3-5Eph 4:22-251Pe 4:4 as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow, Heb 5:12-13Eph 4:152Pe 3:181Co 3:1-2Mrk 10:151Co 14:20Mat 18:3Job 17:9 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Psa 34:8Heb 6:5-6Psa 63:5Psa 24:8Zec 9:17Psa 9:10Sng 2:3 Come to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. Psa 118:22-23Act 4:11-121Pe 2:7Isa 28:16Luk 20:17-18Mrk 12:10-11Zec 3:9Dan 2:34 You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Eph 2:20-221Pe 2:91Co 3:9Rev 5:101Co 3:16Isa 61:6Heb 13:15-16Heb 3:6 Because it is contained in Scripture, Isa 28:16Rom 9:32-331Pe 2:4Eph 2:20Zec 10:4Rom 10:11Mrk 12:10Isa 50:7
“Behold, 1 I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious.
He who believes in him will not be disappointed.” 2
For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, Psa 118:22-23Act 4:11-12Mrk 12:10-11Mat 21:421Pe 2:81Pe 1:82Co 2:16Act 26:19
“The stone which the builders rejected
has become the chief cornerstone,” 3
and, Isa 8:141Co 1:231Pe 2:7Rom 9:32-33Rom 9:22Jud 1:41Th 5:92Pe 2:3
“a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” 4
For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Exo 19:5-6Deu 7:6Rev 1:6Rev 5:10Isa 61:62Ti 1:9Deu 26:18-19Deu 14:2 In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Hos 2:23Heb 4:16Hos 1:9-10Rom 9:25-26Rom 11:6-71Ti 1:13Rom 10:19Rom 11:30
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, 1Jn 2:15-17Gal 5:241Pe 4:2Heb 11:13Rom 8:131Ch 29:15Jas 4:1Rom 12:1 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation. 1Pe 3:16Mat 5:16Tit 2:7-8Php 2:15-162Co 8:211Th 4:121Ti 4:12Jas 3:13
Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme, Tit 3:1Rom 13:1-71Ti 2:1-2Luk 20:25Pro 24:21Jer 29:7Mat 22:21Mrk 12:17 or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well. Rom 13:3-4 For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. 1Pe 3:17Tit 2:81Pe 2:121Th 5:18Mat 7:261Th 4:3Jer 4:22Pro 9:6 Live as free people, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God. Gal 5:13Rom 6:221Co 7:22Rom 6:18Gal 5:1Jas 1:25Eph 6:6Jas 2:12
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. Pro 24:21Rom 12:10Rom 13:71Pe 5:5Php 2:3Heb 13:11Pe 1:221Ti 6:1
Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked. Tit 2:9-10Col 3:22-25Eph 6:5-71Ti 6:1-3Pro 3:32Gal 5:22Jas 3:17Pro 8:13 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God. Mat 5:10-121Pe 2:201Pe 3:14-171Co 15:10Luk 6:32Jhn 15:21Rom 13:52Co 1:12 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God. 1Pe 2:191Pe 3:17Mat 5:10-121Pe 3:141Pe 4:14-16Luk 6:32Eph 5:10Mat 5:47 For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you 5 an example, that you should follow his steps, 1Jn 2:6Mat 16:24Jhn 13:15Eph 5:21Jn 3:161Co 11:11Pe 2:241Pe 4:1 who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.” 6 Isa 53:9Heb 4:152Co 5:211Jn 3:51Jn 2:1Heb 7:26-27Rev 14:5Heb 9:28 When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously. Isa 53:71Pe 4:19Heb 12:3Psa 37:5Act 4:291Pe 3:92Ti 1:12Act 8:32-35 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds. 7 Isa 53:4-6Mat 8:17Rom 6:11Rev 22:21Jn 2:29Jas 5:16Heb 9:28Gal 3:13 For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer 8 of your souls. Isa 53:6Ezk 34:6Luk 15:4-6Act 20:28Jhn 10:11-16Isa 40:11Psa 119:176Ezk 34:11-16