1 Peter 2:3
if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord is excellent.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
In Context
2as newborn babes, long for the genuine intellectual milk, so that ye may grow by it,
4Coming to whom, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God chosen, precious,
Cross References
Psalms 24:8Who is the King of glory? LORD strong and mighty, LORD mighty in battle.
Psalms 63:5My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness. And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips
Zechariah 9:17For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 2:2-4
Against Malice and Hypocrisy. ( a. d. 66.) 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. The holy apostle has been recommending mutual charity, and setting forth the excellences of the word of God, calling it an incorruptible seed, and saying that it liveth and abideth for ever. He pursues his discourse, and very properly… Read the whole commentary →