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Now to you who keep trusting, he is precious. But to those who are not trusting,

“The very stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone”;[a]

also he is

a stone that will make people stumble,
a rock over which they will trip.[b]

They are stumbling at the Word, disobeying it — as had been planned. But you are a chosen people,[c] the King’s cohanim,[d] a holy nation,[e] a people for God to possess![f] Why? In order for you to declare the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:7 Psalm 118:22
  2. 1 Peter 2:8 Isaiah 8:14
  3. 1 Peter 2:9 Isaiah 43:20; Deuteronomy 7:6; 10:15
  4. 1 Peter 2:9 Exodus 19:6; Isaiah 61:6
  5. 1 Peter 2:9 Exodus 19:6
  6. 1 Peter 2:9 Isaiah 43:21; Exodus 19:5

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