1 Peter 2:2–4

² Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, ³ now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. ⁴ As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

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