1 Peter 2:3

if nevertheless ye have tasted, that the Lord is sweet.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2as now born young children, reasonable, without guile, covet ye (the) milk [of full teaching], that in it ye wax into health (or so that by it ye grow in your salvation);

4And nigh ye to him, that is a living stone, and reproved of men, but chosen of God, and honoured; (And come near to him, who is a living stone, and rebuked and rejected by men, but chosen and honoured by God;)

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Cross References

Psalms 24:8Who is this king of glory? the Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. (Who is this King of glory? the strong and mighty Lord, the Lord mighty in battle.)

Psalms 63:5My soul be [ful] filled as with inner fatness and uttermore fatness; and my mouth shall praise with lips of full out joying (or and my mouth shall praise thee with lips of rejoicing).

Zechariah 9:17For what is the good of him, and what is the fair thing of him, no but wheat of chosen men, and wine (of) burgeoning (for the) virgins? (For what is his good thing, and what (is) his beautiful, (or his wonderful), thing? it is wheat for the chosen, and new wine for the 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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