1 Therefore, alaying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,
2aas newborn babes, desire the pure bmilk of the word, that you may grow1 thereby,
3 if indeed you have atasted that the Lord is gracious.
The Chosen Stone and His Chosen People
4 Coming to Him asto a living stone, arejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,
5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6 Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, a“Behold, I lay in Zion A chief cornerstone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.”
If ye have tasted (ei egeusasqe). Condition of first class with ei and first aorist middle indicative of geuw in figurative sense as in Hebrews 6:4 f. "A taste excites the appetite" (Bengel).
Gracious (xrhstov). Quotation from Psalms 34:8. The Hebrew for the LXX xrhstov is simply tobh (good). Plato used the word for food also, and Peter carries out the metaphor in gala (milk) as in Luke 5:39.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 2:3:
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