\subsection{I Peter 2}
\VS{1} Therefore having put aside every evil, and every deceit, and 
hypocrisies and envies and all evil-speakings, 
\VS{2} as newborn babes, long 
for the rational undeceitful milk, in order that you increase in it towards 
salvation, 
\VS{3} if you have tasted that the Lord [is] kind; 
\VS{4} towards whom coming, [towards the] zoe-living\fnZoe{} stone, by men rejected, 
but chosen by God [and] precious [to him], 
\VS{5} you yourselves as zoe-living\fnZoe{} stones are also built as [a] spiritual house 
for [a] holy priesthood, to bring spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God 
through Jesus Christ; 
\VS{6} because it is contained in the Scripture:

\begin{verse}
Behold I place in Zion [a] chief cornerstone, chosen, \\
And the [one] believing upon it will \negd{not} be shamed.
\end{verse}

\VS{7} To you therefore [is] the honor [which is] to [those] believing, but to [those] disbelieving:

\begin{verse}
[the] stone which the builders rejected, \\
This became [the] head of the corner,
\end{verse}

\VS{8} and [a] stone of offense and [a] rock of stumbling, who stumble by the 
word, being disobedient, to which they were also appointed. 
\VS{9} But you 
[are a] chosen generation, [a] king's priesthood, [an] holy nation, [a] people for [his] 
possession, so that you proclaim the excellencies of the [one] having called you 
from the darkness into his marvelous light, 
\VS{10} who [were] once not [a] people, 
but [are] now [the] people of God, who [were] not shown mercy, but now [are] shown mercy.

\VS{11} Agape-beloved, I call upon you as strangers and sojourners to be 
abstaining from fleshly lusts, which war against the psyche-life\fnPsyche{}, 
\VS{12} having 
your way of life good among the nations, in order that in what they speak 
against you as evil-doers, [that] observing by your good-works they may glorify 
God in [the] day of visitation. 
\VS{13} Submit [yourselves] to every human creation because 
of the Lord, whether [the] king as being above, 
\VS{14} whether governors as to 
those sent by him for vengeance of evil-doers, and praise of well-doers; 
\VS{15} because thus is the will of God, by well-doing silencing the 
ignorance of foolish men, 
\VS{16} as free, and not as having [your] freedom [for a] cover 
of evil, but as slaves of God. 
\VS{17} Honor all men, be agape-loving the 
brotherhood, be fearing God, be honoring the king. 
\VS{18} O house-domestics\footnote{OIKETHS: the root in this word is ``house'; neither the root for ``servant' nor ``slave' is present in this word. The intent is a 'house-domestic', as in ``house-servant' or ``house-slave'}, [be] submitting [yourselves] in all fear to your master\fnDespotes(), not only to the good and fair but also to the perverse. 
\VS{19} For this [is] grace, if because 
of conscience [toward] God he endures some pain, suffering unjustly. 
\VS{20} For 
what sort of credit [Is it] if sinning and being beaten [for it] you endure? But if doing 
good and suffering [for it] you endure, this [is] grace with God. 
\VS{21} For to this 
were you called, for Christ also suffered in your behalf, leaving us [an] 
example in order that you follow in his path\footnote{or ``foot steps''}, 
\VS{22} who did no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth, 
\VS{23} who being 
reviled did not revile in return, suffering he did not threaten, but was 
delivering [himself] up to the [one] judging justly; 
\VS{24} who himself bore our sins in 
his body upon the tree, in order that dying to sins we zoe-live\fnZoe{} to justice, by 
whose wounds we are healed. 
\VS{25} For you were s sheep being led astray, 
but now you have been turned back to the shepherd and overseer [of your] psyche-lives\fnPsyche{}.
