hSee Matt. 18:3
jCited from Ps. 34:12-16
Titus 2:11-12
11For athe grace of God bhas appeared, bringing salvation cfor all people, 12training us to renounce ungodliness and dworldly passions, and eto live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in fthe present age,1 Peter 2:1-2
A Living Stone and a Holy People
1 gSo put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 hLike newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual imilk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—1 Peter 3:10-11
10Forj“Whoever desires to love life
and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit;
11let him turn away from evil and do good;
let him seek peace and pursue it.
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