1 Peter 2:3

Mace New Testament

adhere to him as to a living stone,

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 .

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

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.

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

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:

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that the Lord is swete.

Contextual Overview

¹ Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk, ² which is without any mixture, and will make you thrive. Since you have tasted how good the Lord is, ³ adhere to him as to a living stone,

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

Mark 2:27
adding this observation, "the sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath."

Luke 23:56
then they went home, and provided spices and perfumes: after which they rested the sabbath-day, as the law appointed.

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.