1 Peter 2:3
If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
In Context
2As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:
Cross References
Psalms 24:8Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle.
Psalms 63:5Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will lift up my hands.
Zechariah 9:17For what is the good thing of him, and what is his beautiful thing, but the corn of 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 →