So put away all malice and all guile and insincerity and envy and all slander.

Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation;

for you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

Come to him, to that living stone, rejected by men but in God's sight chosen and precious;

and like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.