"BestMilk" | 1 Pet 2:1-3 Bible Study ✞-word | 9.3.25

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Across
  1. 1. Unlike physical milk that expires, the word of God is ____ – it endures forever (1 Pet 1:24-25; cf. Is 40:8).
  2. 6. Though, in a sense, Christians already have ___, we are to continue to grow spiritually until the coming ____ in the last time – when Christ comes back to consummate the Kingdom (1 Pet 2:2; cf. 1 Pet 1:5).
  3. 8. When it comes to character and conduct, true children of God the Father should have a divine family ___ (1 Pet 1:14-16; 1 Jn 3:9).
  4. 9. For one another, Christians should have sincere brotherly ___ (philadelphia) (1 Pet 1:22).
  5. 10. True Christians have been ___ again by the seed of the Gospel of God – His living and enduring word (1 Pet 1:23; cf. 1 Pet 1:3-5).
Down
  1. 2. ___ entails pretending and putting on a show like actors on stage – putting on a Christian costume (1 Pet 2:1; cf. Mt 7:15, 23:27-28; Tit 1:16; 1 Jn 2:4).
  2. 3. 1 Peter is likely a letter from Peter to the church at Rome, which was enduring ____ in the Roman Empire (1 Pet 1:6-7).
  3. 4. (Two words) Christians should ___ ___ all malice, deceit, jealousy, slander, etc. like dirty clothes (1 Pet 2:1).
  4. 5. Like babies long for breast____, believers should long for the Lord’s spiritual “Best___” – the word of God (1 Pet 2:2).
  5. 7. We must ___ and see that the Lord and the Lord’s word are good (1 Pet 2:3; cf. Ps 34:8, 119:103).