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1 Peter 2:6-8
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6 For it stands in scripture,

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”[a]

7 Therefore the honor is for you who believe, but for those who refuse to believe,

“The stone that the builders rejected,
this one has become the cornerstone[b],”

8 and

“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,”[c]

who stumble because they[d] disobey the word to which also they were consigned.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:6 A quotation from Isa 28:16
  2. 1 Peter 2:7 Literally “into the head of the corner”
  3. 1 Peter 2:8 A quotation from Isa 8:14
  4. 1 Peter 2:8 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“disobey”) which is understood as causal
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