Chapter summary

1 Peter 2 — Living Stones and a Chosen People

Believers, like newborn babes craving pure milk, are built up as living stones into a spiritual house — a chosen race and royal priesthood declaring the praises of God.

Peter calls believers to put aside malice and to long for the pure spiritual milk of God's Word.

Coming to Christ — the living Stone rejected by men but chosen by God — they are themselves living stones, built as a spiritual house and a holy priesthood.

They are "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession," to proclaim his excellencies.

The chapter ends with the call to follow the suffering Christ, who, by his wounds, has brought wandering sheep back to the Shepherd of their souls.

Key verses BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

1 Peter 2:5 “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.” 1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:24 “He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.””

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