1 Peter 2:2

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Summary

1 Peter 2:2

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

New-born

The sincere

Psalm 19:7

1 Corinthians 3:2

Hebrews 5:12

Grow

General references

John 10:5

Bible References

New-born

Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.

Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.

And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

The sincere

The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

Grow

For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?

Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.

But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;

But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

General references

They will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in flight, because his voice is strange to them.