1 Peter 2:3

since ‘you have found by experience that the Lord is kind.’

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow until you attain salvation –

4Come to him, then, as to a living stone, rejected, indeed, by men, but in God’s eyes choice and precious;

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Cross References

Psalms 24:8“Who is the glorious king?” “The Lord strong and heroic, the Lord heroic in battle.”

Psalms 63:5As with marrow and fat am I feasted; with joyful lips I will praise you.

Zechariah 9:17How good and how beautiful will it be! Corn will make the young men flourish and new wine the young women!

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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