< 1 Peter 2 >
1 Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,
MAKE to cease therefore from you all malice and all guile, and dissimulation, and envy, and slander;
2 as newborn babies, desire the reasonable, unspoiled milk, so that you may grow up to salvation,
and be as (new)-born babes, and be desirous of the word as of milk pure and spiritual, that by it you may increase unto life.
3 if [it] so be [that] you tasted that the LORD [is] good,
If you have tasted and seen how good is the Lord,
4 to whom coming—a living stone—having indeed been disapproved of by men, but with God—choice [and] precious,
unto whom you have come, who is the living stone whom men have rejected, yet (who is) chosen and honourable with Aloha.
5 and you yourselves are built up as living stones [into] a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
And you also as living stones are builded, and become a spiritual temple, and holy priests to offer sacrifices, which are acceptable before Aloha by Jeshu Meshiha.
6 For this reason, also, it is contained in the Writing: “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on Him may not be put to shame”;
For it is said in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone choice and honourable in the head of the corner: whosoever believeth in him shall not be ashamed.
7 to you, then, who are believing—the preciousness; but to the unbelieving, [the] stone that the builders disapproved of—this One has become the head of [the] corner,
To you therefore is given this honour, to them who believe: but to them who are disobedient he is a rock of offence,
8 and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense—who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving—to which they were also set.
or a stone of stumbling, and they are offended at him in not obeying the word, because to this they are set.
9 But you [are] a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that you may show forth the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light,
But you are a chosen race, who minister as priests to the kingdom, a holy people, a congregation redeemed to announce the praises of him who hath called you from darkness to his transcendant light:
10 who [were] once not a people, but [are] now the people of God; who had not found mercy, but now have found mercy.
those who before were not reputed a people, but now the people of Aloha; upon whom also mercies were not; but now, mercies are poured upon you.
11 Beloved, I call on [you], as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires that war against the soul,
MY beloved, I beseech you as strangers and as sojourners, be separate from all the lusts of the body which make wars against the soul.
12 having your behavior right among the nations, so that whenever they speak against you as evildoers, seeing [your] good works, they may glorify God in [the] day of inspection.
And let your conversation be good before all men; and they who speak against you malicious words shall see your good deeds, and shall glorify Aloha in the day of the probation.
13 Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the LORD, whether to a king, as the highest,
And be subject to all men for the sake of Aloha: to kings, on account of their authority;
14 whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evildoers, and a praise of those doing good;
and to judges, because from him they are sent for the punishment of transgressors, and for the commendation of good works.
15 because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men—
For so is the will of Aloha, that by your comely works you may shut the mouth of fools who know not Aloha.
16 as free, and not having freedom as the cloak of evil, but as servants of God;
As the sons of liberty, yet not as men who make their liberty a veil for their wickedness, but as the servants of Aloha.
17 give honor to all; love the brotherhood; fear God; honor the king.
Honour all; your brethren love; and Aloha revere; and kings honour.
18 Servants, be subject in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the crooked;
And those servants who are among you, be subject to your masters with reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the hard and the severe.
19 for this [is] grace: if anyone endures sorrows because of conscience toward God, suffering unrighteously;
For these are pleasing before Aloha, who, for the sake of a good conscience, endure the afflictions that come upon them unjustly.
20 for what renown [is it], if sinning and being battered, you endure [it]? But if, doing good and suffering [for it], you endure, this [is] grace with God,
For they who on account of their offences suffer tribulations, what praise have they? But when you do well and they afflict you, and you endure, then doth your praise become great with Aloha.
21 for to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving to you an example, that you may follow His steps,
For unto this have you been called; because the Meshiha also hath died for us, and left us this example, that in his steps we may walk.
22 who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in His mouth,
Who did no sin, nor was guile found in his mouth;
23 who being reviled—was not reviling again, suffering—was not threatening, and was committing Himself to Him who is judging righteously,
who was reviled and reviled not, and suffered and threatened not, but delivered his cause to the Judge of righteousness;
24 who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree that having died to sins, we may live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed;
and took all our sins and upbore them in his body on the cross; that when dead to sin, in the righteousness of him we might live; for by his stripes you are healed,
25 for you were as sheep going astray, but now you turned back to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
who had wandered as sheep, and are returned now unto the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.