Hey everyone, this is Mary Demuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I pray you through the Bible verse by verse.

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encouraging and really something you're going to want to listen to on your commute to work, perhaps,

or as you're getting ready for the day. All right, today I'm reading from 1 Peter chapter 2,

verses 1 through 12 in the World English Bible.

This is what it says.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit,

hypocris, envies, and all evil speaking. As newborn babies long for the pure spiritual milk,

that with it you may grow, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Come to him a living stone,

rejected indeed by men but chosen by God precious. You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood

to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Because it is contained in Scripture,

Behold I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone chosen and precious. He who believes in

him will not be disappointed. For you who believe, therefore, is the honor, but for those who are

disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone and

a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.

For they stumble at the word being disobedient to which also they were appointed.

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