1 Peter 2:3

Amplified Bible

if in fact you have [already] tasted the goodness and gracious kindness of the Lord.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
if you have tasted that the Lord is good.

King James Version (1611)
If so bee yee haue tasted that the Lord is gracious.

King James Version
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

English Standard Version
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

New American Standard Bible
if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

New Century Version
because you have already examined and seen how good the Lord is.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

Berean Standard Bible
now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Contemporary English Version
You have already found out how good the Lord really is.

Complete Jewish Bible
For you have tasted that Adonai is good .

Darby Translation
if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord [is] good.

Easy-to-Read Version
You have already tasted the goodness of the Lord.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Because yee haue tasted that the Lorde is bountifull.

George Lamsa Translation
If so be you have tasted and found out that the LORD is good.

Good News Translation
As the scripture says, "You have found out for yourselves how kind the Lord is."

Lexham English Bible
if you have tasted that the Lord is kind,

Literal Translation
if indeed you "tasted" "that the Lord is good;" LXX-Psa. 33:9; MT-Psa. 34:8

American Standard Version
if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

Bible in Basic English
If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:

Hebrew Names Version
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

International Standard Version
Surely you have tasted that the Lord is good!Psalm 34:8; Hebrews 6:5;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
If you have tasted and seen how good is the Lord,

Murdock Translation
if ye have tasted and seen that the Lord is good:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If so be that ye haue tasted howe gratious the Lorde is:

English Revised Version
if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

World English Bible
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

Weymouth's New Testament
if you have had any experience of the goodness of the Lord.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that the Lord is swete.

Update Bible Version
if you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

Webster's Bible Translation
If indeed ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.

New English Translation
if you have experienced the Lord's kindness .

New King James Version
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

New Living Translation
now that you have had a taste of the Lord's kindness.

New Life Bible
If you have tasted of the Lord, you know how good He is.

New Revised Standard
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If ye have tasted for yourselves that, gracious, is the Lord, -

Douay-Rheims Bible
If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.

Revised Standard Version
for you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
If so be that ye have tasted how plesaunt the lorde is

Young's Literal Translation
if so be ye did taste that the Lord [is] gracious,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yf so be that ye haue taisted how frendly the LORDE is.

Mace New Testament (1729)
adhere to him as to a living stone,

Simplified Cowboy Version
Soon, you will have a taste for God's love and kindness.

Contextual Overview

¹So put aside every trace of malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander and hateful speech; ²like newborn babies [you should] long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may be nurtured and grow in respect to salvation [its ultimate fulfillment], ³if in fact you have [already] tasted the goodness and gracious kindness of the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 9:10, Psalms 24:8, Psalms 63:5, Song of Solomon 2:3, Zechariah 9:17, Hebrews 6:5, Hebrews 6:6

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:35 - can I discern Job 12:11 - Doth Psalms 34:8 - taste Romans 12:2 - prove 2 Corinthians 12:16 - being

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested (ceased) on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Genesis 2:3
So God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it [as His own, that is, set it apart as holy from other days], because in it He rested from all His work which He had created and done.

Genesis 2:4
This is the history of [the origin of] the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day [that is, days of creation] that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens—

Genesis 2:7
then the LORD God formed [that is, created the body of] man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being [an individual complete in body and spirit].

Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden (oasis) in the east, in Eden (delight, land of happiness); and He put the man whom He had formed (created) there.

Genesis 2:10
Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four [branching] rivers.

Genesis 2:11
The first [river] is named Pishon; it flows around the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is good; bdellium (a fragrant, valuable resin) and the onyx stone are found there.

Genesis 2:13
The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the entire land of Cush [in Mesopotamia].

Genesis 2:14
The third river is named Hiddekel (Tigris); it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Reference is had to Psalms 34:8, "O taste and see that the Lord is good"; and the Syriac version here adds, "if ye have seen": by the Lord is meant, the Lord Jesus Christ, as the following words show, who is gracious and amiable, and lovely in his person; who has a fulness of grace in him for his people; has displayed his grace towards them, in engaging for them as a surety, in assuming their nature, obeying, suffering, and dying in their stead; he is gracious in his word and promises, truths and ordinances, and in all his offices and relations; and regenerate persons have tasted that he is so: an unregenerate man has no spiritual taste; his taste is vitiated by sin, and not being changed, sin is a sweet morsel in his mouth, and he disrelishes everything that is spiritual; but one that is born again savours the things of the Spirit of God; sin is exceeding sinful to him, and Christ exceeding precious; he, and his fruit, his promises, and blessings of grace, his word and ordinances, are sweet unto his taste: and the taste he has is not a mere superficial one, such as hypocrites may have of the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come; but such a taste of Christ, and of his grace, as, by a true faith, to eat his flesh, and drink his blood, and so have everlasting life; such have a saving and experimental knowledge of Christ, an application of him, and his saving benefits to them, a revelation of him in them, so that they find and feel that he dwells in them, and they in him; such receive out of Christ's fulness, and grace for grace, and live by faith upon him, and receive nourishment from him; and of this the apostle made no doubt concerning these persons, but took it for granted that they had had such tastes of Christ, and therefore could not but desire the Gospel, which is a revelation of Christ, and sets forth the glory of his person, and the riches of his grace: and whereas, such as have truly tasted of his grace cannot but desire to have more, and fresh tastes of it; where should they have them, but in his word and ordinances? and therefore, would they grow in grace, and know more of Christ, and taste more of his goodness, it is their interest, as it is their spiritual nature, to desire the Gospel, in the purity and sincerity of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious - Or rather, as Doddridge renders it, “Since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” The apostle did not mean to express any doubt on the subject, but to state that, since they had had an experimental acquaintance with the grace of God, they should desire to increase more and more in the knowledge and love of him. On the use of the word “taste,” see the notes at Hebrews 6:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Peter 2:3. If so be ye have tasted — ειπερ εγευσασθε. Seeing ye have tasted. There could be no doubt that they had tasted the goodness of Christ who were born again, of incorruptible seed, and whose hearts were purified by the truth, and who had like precious faith with the apostles themselves.

That the Lord is gracious.] οτι χρηστος ο κυριος. From the similarity of the letters, many MSS. and several of the fathers have read, χριστος ο κυριος, the Lord is Christ, or Christ is the Lord.

This seems to refer to Psalms 34:8: O taste and see that the Lord is good; γευσασθε και ιδετε οτι χρηστος ο κυριος, Sept. And there is still a reference to the sucking child that, having once tasted its mother's milk, ever after desires and longs for it. As they were born of God, and had tasted his goodness, they would naturally desire the same pure unadulterated milk of the word.