1 Peter 2:3
1 Peter 2:33now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Peter here echoes ("O taste and see that Jehovah is good") and applies it to Jesus — verse 4 immediately identifies the antecedent as "the Lord" who is "the living Stone" (Christ). The NWT renders 2:3 as "you have tasted that the Lord is kind," keeping "Lord" (Kyrios) rather than inserting "Jehovah" at this Old Testament quotation point. This is a telling exception to the NWT's own stated rule of inserting the divine name at OT-YHWH quotations in the New Testament. Inserting "Jehovah" here would identify Jesus as the YHWH of . The rendering keeps "Lord" because the context in 2:4 forces the identification the other direction — and the Watchtower cannot allow that.
This is one of the clearest demonstrations of the NWT's selective Tetragrammaton policy. The NWT Appendix A5 rule is to insert "Jehovah" where the NT quotes an OT passage containing the divine name. directly quotes , where YHWH appears in the Masoretic text. By the NWT's own rule, the verse should read "you have tasted that Jehovah is kind." It does not. The reason is verse 4: Peter applies the "Lord" of verse 3 directly to Jesus as the "living Stone." Inserting "Jehovah" at verse 3 would identify Jesus as Jehovah at verse 4. So the NWT breaks its own rule here — and makes the same move at (quoting , addressed to YHWH but applied by Hebrews to Christ), (quoting , "every knee will bow" — said by YHWH — but applied to Jesus), and ("sanctify the Christ as Lord" — Peter's rewrite of 's "sanctify YHWH of armies"). The consistency test exposes the theological motivation: insert Jehovah where it separates Jesus from God; keep Lord where inserting it would identify Jesus as YHWH. The insertion pattern is doctrinal, not textual.
Direct OT quotation of ("O taste and see that Jehovah is good"). By the NWT's own stated Appendix A5 policy, "Jehovah" should be inserted at this Kyrios in the Greek. The NWT keeps "Lord" because verse 4 immediately applies the title to Jesus as the "living Stone" — and inserting "Jehovah" would identify Jesus as YHWH. This is one of the documented selectivity passages in 043-tetragrammaton-insertion: the NWT inserts "Jehovah" where it separates Jesus from God and retains "Lord" where the insertion would identify Jesus as God. The pattern, not the single verse, is what carries the weight at the door.