1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
In Context
1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:5Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation and all my desire. Won’t he make it grow?
Psalms 19:7The LORD’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. The LORD’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Hosea 6:3Let’s acknowledge the LORD. Let’s press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, the LORD will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
Hosea 14:7Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
Matthew 18:3and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Romans 6:4We were buried therefore with him through immersion into death, that just as Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
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 →