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1 Peter 2:3
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if you have tasted that the Lord is good.
If so bee yee haue tasted that the Lord is gracious.
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.
because you have already examined and seen how good the Lord is.
if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.
now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
You have already found out how good the Lord really is.
For you have tasted that Adonai is good .
if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord [is] good.
Because yee haue tasted that the Lorde is bountifull.
If so be you have tasted and found out that the LORD is good.
As the scripture says, "You have found out for yourselves how kind the Lord is."
if you have tasted that the Lord is kind,
if indeed you "tasted" "that the Lord is good;" LXX-Psa. 33:9; MT-Psa. 34:8
if in fact you have [already] tasted the goodness and gracious kindness of the Lord.
if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
Surely you have tasted that the Lord is good!Psalm 34:8; Hebrews 6:5;">[xr]
If you have tasted and seen how good is the Lord,
if ye have tasted and seen that the Lord is good:
If so be that ye haue tasted howe gratious the Lorde is:
if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
If ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
if you have had any experience of the goodness of the Lord.
that the Lord is swete.
if you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
If indeed ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.
if you have experienced the Lord's kindness .
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
now that you have had a taste of the Lord's kindness.
If you have tasted of the Lord, you know how good He is.
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
If ye have tasted for yourselves that, gracious, is the Lord, -
If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.
for you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.
If so be that ye have tasted how plesaunt the lorde is
if so be ye did taste that the Lord [is] gracious,
yf so be that ye haue taisted how frendly the LORDE is.
adhere to him as to a living stone,
Soon, you will have a taste for God's love and kindness.
Contextual Overview
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
God finished the work he was doing, so on the seventh day he rested from his work.
God blessed the seventh day and made it a holy day. He made it special because on that day he rested from all the work he did while creating the world.
This is the story about the creation of the sky and the earth. This is what happened when the Lord God made the earth and the sky.
Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nose, and the man became a living thing.
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East, in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden.
A river flowed from Eden and watered the garden. The river then separated and became four smaller rivers.
The name of the first river was Pishon. This river flowed around the entire country of Havilah.
(There is gold in that country, and that gold is pure. A kind of expensive perfume and onyx are also found there.)
The name of the second river was Gihon. This river flowed around the whole land of Cush.
The name of the third river was Tigris. This river flowed east of Assyria. The fourth river was 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.
