1 Peter 2:3

if-even you-taste that the Lord [is] benevolent

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2as presently-begotten babies, whence-upon/long-for the word/reckon/account-ful/logical, un-bait-ful milk, in-which-place you-may-be-grown in to{same} into salvation,

4toward, whom, being-come-toward [a] being-alive stone, on-one-hand having-been-esteemed-off/away[i.e. rejected] under of{men}, on-the-other-hand chosen[adjective] invaluable beside to{God},

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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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