1. Having put aside, then, all evil, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil words,
2. as newborn babes, desire the unadulterated milk of the Word, in order that you grow by it,
3. if indeed you have tasted that the Master is good.
4. Drawing near to Him, a living Stone – rejected indeed by men, but chosen by Elohim and precious –
5. you also, as living stones, are being built up, a spiritual house, a set-apart priesthood, to offer up spiritual slaughter offerings acceptable to Elohim through יהושע Messiah.
6. Because it is contained in the Scripture, “See, I lay in Tsiyon a chief corner-stone, chosen, precious, and he who believes on Him shall by no means be put to shame.”