1 Peter 2:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation—

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) spiritual milk, that by it you may be nurtured and grow unto [completed] salvation,

American Standard Version (1901)

² as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

Common English Bible

² Instead, like a newborn baby, desire the pure milk of the word. Nourished by it, you will grow into salvation,

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Like newborn infants, desire the milk of reasonableness without guile, so that by this you may increase unto salvation,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:

1 Peter 2:2 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house like this with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. Will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?

Job 17:9

Yet the righteous hold to their way, and they who have clean hands grow stronger and stronger.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Hosea 14:5

I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall strike root like the forests of Lebanon.

Hosea 14:7

They shall again live beneath my shadow; they shall flourish as a garden; they shall blossom like the vine; their fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon.

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth.”

Malachi 4:2

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

Matthew 18:3

and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:14

but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”

Mark 10:15

Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”

Luke 18:17

Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”

Romans 6:4

Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.

Ephesians 2:21

in him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

Ephesians 4:15

but speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.