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    "book": "1-peter",
    "chapter": 2
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    "n": 2,
    "bookSlug": "1-peter",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "1PE-2:1",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.1",
        "text": "Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "1PE-2:2",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.2",
        "text": "as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "1PE-2:3",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.3",
        "text": "if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "1PE-2:4",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.4",
        "text": "unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "1PE-2:5",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.5",
        "text": "ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "1PE-2:6",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.6",
        "text": "Because it is contained in scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "1PE-2:7",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.7",
        "text": "For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "1PE-2:8",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.8",
        "text": "and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence;     for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "1PE-2:9",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.9",
        "text": "But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God`s] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "1PE-2:10",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.10",
        "text": "who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "1PE-2:11",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.11",
        "text": "Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "1PE-2:12",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.12",
        "text": "having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "1PE-2:13",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.13",
        "text": "Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord`s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "1PE-2:14",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.14",
        "text": "or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "1PE-2:15",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.15",
        "text": "For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "1PE-2:16",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.16",
        "text": "as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "1PE-2:17",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.17",
        "text": "Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "1PE-2:18",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.18",
        "text": "Servants, [be] in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "1PE-2:19",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.19",
        "text": "For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "1PE-2:20",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.20",
        "text": "For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted [for it], ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye shall take it patiently, this is acceptable with God."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "1PE-2:21",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.21",
        "text": "For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "1PE-2:22",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.22",
        "text": "who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "1PE-2:23",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.23",
        "text": "who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "1PE-2:24",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.24",
        "text": "who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "1PE-2:25",
        "verseRef": "1PE.2.25",
        "text": "For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls."
      }
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