1 Peter 2:3

if it is true that you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.

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In The King James Version

If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

In Context

2Like newborn infants, desire the milk of reasonableness without guile, so that by this you may increase unto salvation,

4And approaching him as if he were a living stone, rejected by men, certainly, but elect and honored by God,

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Cross References

Psalms 24:8The Lord is sweet and righteous. Because of this, he will grant a law to those who fall short in the way.

Psalms 63:5so that they may shoot arrows from hiding at the immaculate.

Zechariah 9:17For what is his goodness and what is his beauty, other than grain among the elect and wine springing forth 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 →

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