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1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all\\xa0slander. 2 Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, so that by it you\\xa0may grow up into your salvation, 3 if you have tasted that the Lord is good. 4 As you come to him, a living stone \\u2014 rejected by people but chosen and honored by God - 5 you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are\\xa0being built to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. \\xa06 For it stands in Scripture: See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and honored cornerstone, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame. 7 So honor will come to you who believe; but for the unbelieving, The stone that the builders rejected \\u2014this one has become the cornerstone,\\xa08 and a\\xa0stone to stumble over, and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word; they were destined for this. 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.\\xa010 Once you were not a people, but now you\\xa0are God\\u2019s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 11 Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.

1 Peter 2-11 (CSB)

1. We need to go after His Word.

1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all\\xa0slander. 2 Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, so that by it you\\xa0may grow up into your salvation, 3 if you have tasted that the Lord is good.

2. We need to come to Jesus to be built.

4 As you come to him, a living stone \\u2014 rejected by people but chosen and honored by God - 5 you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are\\xa0being built to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. \\xa06 For it stands in Scripture: See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and honored cornerstone, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame. 7 So honor will come to you who believe; but for the unbelieving, The stone that the builders rejected \\u2014this one has become the cornerstone,\\xa08 and a\\xa0stone to stumble over, and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word; they were destined for this.

3. We need to know who we are and whose we are.

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.\\xa010 Once you were not a people, but now you\\xa0are God\\u2019s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.