1 Peter 2:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

To whome coming as vnto a liuing stone disalowed of men, but chosen of God and precious,

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  • 1 Pet 2:7 : 7 Vnto you therefore which beleeue, it is precious: but vnto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disalowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
  • Acts 4:11-12 : 11 This is the stone cast aside of you builders which is become the head of the corner. 12 Neither is there saluation in any other: for among men there is giuen none other Name vnder heauen, whereby we must be saued.
  • Ps 118:22-23 : 22 The stone, which the builders refused, is the head of the corner. 23 This was the Lordes doing, and it is marueilous in our eyes.
  • Isa 8:14-15 : 14 And he shalbe as a Sanctuarie: but as a stumbling stone, and as a rocke to fall vpon, to both the houses of Israel, and as a snare and as a net to the inhabitants of Ierusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble, and shal fall and shalbe broken and shalbe snared and shalbe taken.
  • Isa 28:16 : 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will laye in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation. Hee that beleeueth, shall not make haste.
  • Isa 42:1 : 1 Beholde, my seruaunt: I will stay vpon him: mine elect, in whom my soule deliteth: I haue put my Spirit vpo him: he shal bring forth iudgement to the Gentiles.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Encline your eares, and come vnto me: heare, and your soule shal liue, and I will make an euerlasting couenant with you, euen the sure mercies of Dauid.
  • Jer 3:22 : 22 O yee disobedient children, returne and I wil heale your rebellions. Behold, we come vnto thee, for thou art the Lord our God.
  • Dan 2:34 : 34 Thou beheldest it til a stone was cut without hands, which smote the image vpon his feete, that were of yron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
  • Dan 2:45 : 45 Where as thou sawest, that the stone was cut of the mountaine without handes, and that it brake in pieces the yron, the brasse, the claye, the siluer, and the golde: so the great God hath shewed the King, what shall come to passe hereafter, and the dreame is true, and the interpretation thereof is sure.
  • Zech 3:9 : 9 For loe, the stone that I haue layd before Iehoshua: vpon one stone shalbe seuen eyes: beholde, I will cut out the grauing thereof, saith the Lord of hostes, and I will take away the iniquitie of this land in one day.
  • Zech 4:7 : 7 Who art thou, O great mountaine, before Zerubbabel? thou shalt be a plaine, and he shall bring foorth the head stone thereof, with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace vnto it.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come vnto me, all ye that are wearie and laden, and I will ease you.
  • Matt 12:18 : 18 Behold my seruant whom I haue chosen, my beloued in whom my soule deliteth: I wil put my Spirit on him, and he shall shewe iudgement to the Gentiles.
  • Matt 21:42 : 42 Iesus saide vnto them, Read ye neuer in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders refused, the same is made the head of the corner? This was the Lordes doing, and it is marueilous in our eyes.
  • Mark 12:10-11 : 10 Haue ye not read so much as this Scripture? The stone which the builders did refuse, is made the head of the corner. 11 This was done of the Lord, and it is marueilous in our eyes.
  • Luke 20:17-18 : 17 And he beheld them, & said, What meaneth this then that is written, The stone that the builders refused, that is made the head of the corner? 18 Whosoeuer shall fall vpon that stone, shall be broken: and on whomsoeuer it shall fall, it will grinde him to pouder.
  • John 5:26 : 26 For as the Father hath life in himselfe, so likewise hath he giuen to the Sonne to haue life in himselfe,
  • John 5:40 : 40 But ye will not come to me, that ye might haue life.
  • John 6:37 : 37 All that the Father giueth me, shall come to mee: and him that commeth to me, I cast not away.
  • John 6:57 : 57 As that liuing Father hath sent me, so liue I by the Father, and he that eateth me, euen he shall liue by me.
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Iesus saide vnto her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that beleeueth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he liue. 26 And whosoeuer liueth, and beleeueth in me, shall neuer die: Beleeuest thou this?
  • Rom 5:10 : 10 For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne, much more being reconciled, we shalbe saued by his life,
  • Col 3:4 : 4 When Christ which is our life, shall appeare, then shal ye also appeare with him in glory.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 That the triall of your faith, being much more precious then golde that perisheth (though it be tried with fire) might bee founde vnto your praise, and honour and glorie at the appearing of Iesus Christ:
  • 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lambe vndefiled, and without spot.
  • 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 Simon Peter a seruant and an Apostle of Iesus Christ, to you which haue obteined like precious faith with vs by the righteousnesse of our God and Sauiour Iesus Christ:
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 Whereby most great and precious promises are giuen vnto vs, that by them ye should be partakers of the diuine nature, in that ye flee the corruption, which is in the worlde through lust.
  • John 14:19 : 19 Yet a litle while, and the world shal see me no more, but ye shall see me: because I liue, ye shall liue also.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Iesus sayd vnto him, I am that Way, and that Trueth, and that Life. No man commeth vnto the Father, but by me.

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  • 1 Pet 2:5-11
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    5 Yee also as liuely stones, bee made a spirituall house, an holy Priesthoode to offer vp spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ.

    6 Wherefore also it is conteyned in the Scripture, Beholde, I put in Sion a chiefe corner stone, elect and precious: and hee that beleeueth therein, shall not be ashamed.

    7 Vnto you therefore which beleeue, it is precious: but vnto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disalowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

    8 And a stone to stumble at, and a rocke of offence, euen to them which stumble at the woorde, being disobedient, vnto the which thing they were euen ordeined.

    9 But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthoode, an holy nation, a people set at libertie, that yee shoulde shewe foorth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenesse into his marueilous light,

    10 Which in time past were not a people, yet are nowe the people of God: which in time past were not vnder mercie, but nowe haue obteined mercie.

    11 Dearely beloued, I beseeche you, as strangers and pilgrims, absteine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule,

  • Acts 4:11
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    11 This is the stone cast aside of you builders which is become the head of the corner.

  • 1 Pet 2:2-3
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    2 As newe borne babes desire that sincere milke of the woorde, that yee may growe thereby,

    3 Because yee haue tasted that the Lorde is bountifull.

  • Ps 118:22
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    22 The stone, which the builders refused, is the head of the corner.

  • Mark 12:10
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    10 Haue ye not read so much as this Scripture? The stone which the builders did refuse, is made the head of the corner.

  • Luke 20:17-18
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    17 And he beheld them, & said, What meaneth this then that is written, The stone that the builders refused, that is made the head of the corner?

    18 Whosoeuer shall fall vpon that stone, shall be broken: and on whomsoeuer it shall fall, it will grinde him to pouder.

  • 1 Pet 1:18-23
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    18 Knowing that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as siluer and golde, from your vaine conuersation, receiued by the traditions of the fathers,

    19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lambe vndefiled, and without spot.

    20 Which was ordeined before the foundation of the world, but was declared in the last times for your sakes,

    21 Which by his meanes doe beleeue in God that raised him from the dead, and gaue him glorie, that your faith and hope might bee in God,

    22 Hauing purified your soules in obeying the trueth through the spirite, to loue brotherly without faining, loue one another with a pure heart feruently,

    23 Being borne anewe, not of mortall seede, but of immortall, by the woorde of God, who liueth and endureth for euer.

  • Eph 2:19-22
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    19 Nowe therefore ye are no more strangers and forreiners: but citizens with the Saintes, and of the houshold of God,

    20 And are built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone,

    21 In whom all the building coupled together, groweth vnto an holy Temple in the Lord.

    22 In whom ye also are built together to be the habitation of God by the Spirit.

  • Matt 21:42
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    42 Iesus saide vnto them, Read ye neuer in the Scriptures, The stone which the builders refused, the same is made the head of the corner? This was the Lordes doing, and it is marueilous in our eyes.

  • Isa 28:16
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    16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will laye in Zion a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation. Hee that beleeueth, shall not make haste.

  • Rom 9:32-33
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    32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the workes of the Lawe: for they haue stumbled at the stumbling stone,

    33 As it is written, Beholde, I lay in Sion a stumbling stone, and a rocke to make men fall: and euery one that beleeueth in him, shall not be ashamed.

  • 1 Pet 1:1-4
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    1 Peter an Apostle of Iesvs Christ, to the strangers that dwell here and there throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,

    2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God ye Father vnto sanctification of ye Spirit, through obedience and sprinkeling of the blood of Iesus Christ: Grace and peace bee multiplied vnto you.

    3 Blessed bee God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, which according to his aboundant mercie hath begotten vs againe vnto a liuely hope by the resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead,

    4 To an inheritance immortall and vndefiled, and that withereth not, reserued in heauen for vs,

  • 1 Cor 3:10-12
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    10 According to the grace of God giuen to mee, as a skilfull master builder, I haue laide the foundation, & another buildeth thereon: but let euery man take heede how he buildeth vpon it.

    11 For other foundation can no man laie, then that which is laied, which is Iesus Christ.

    12 And if any man builde on this foundation, golde, siluer, precious stones, timber, haye, or stubble,

  • 1 Pet 1:6-8
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    6 Wherein yee reioyce, though nowe for a season (if neede require) yee are in heauinesse, through manifolde tentations,

    7 That the triall of your faith, being much more precious then golde that perisheth (though it be tried with fire) might bee founde vnto your praise, and honour and glorie at the appearing of Iesus Christ:

    8 Whome yee haue not seene, and yet loue him, in whome nowe, though yee see him not, yet doe you beleeue, and reioyce with ioy vnspeakeable and glorious,

  • 2 Pet 1:1
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    1 Simon Peter a seruant and an Apostle of Iesus Christ, to you which haue obteined like precious faith with vs by the righteousnesse of our God and Sauiour Iesus Christ:

  • 1 Pet 2:25
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    25 For ye were as sheepe going astray: but are nowe returned vnto the shepheard and Bishop of your soules.

  • Acts 4:8
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    8 Then Peter ful of the holy Ghost, said vnto them, Ye rulers of the people, and Elders of Israel,

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    14 As obedient children, not fashioning your selues vnto the former lustes of your ignorance:

  • Matt 21:44
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    44 And whosoeuer shall fall on this stone, he shalbe broken: but on whomsoeuer it shal fall, it will dash him a pieces.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17 If any man destroy the Temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the Temple of God is holy, which ye are.

  • 1 Pet 4:12
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    12 Dearely beloued, thinke it not strange concerning the firie triall, which is among you to proue you, as though some strange thing were come vnto you:

  • 1 Pet 5:4
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    4 And when that chiefe shepheard shal appeare, ye shall receiue an incorruptible crowne of glory.

  • 1 Cor 1:28
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    28 And vile things of the worlde and thinges which are despised, hath God chosen, and thinges which are not, to bring to nought thinges that are,

  • 2 Pet 1:11
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    11 For by this meanes an entring shalbe ministred vnto you aboundantly into the euerlasting kingdome of our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christ.

  • Jude 1:17
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    17 But, yee beloued, remember the wordes which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christ,

  • Jude 1:4
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    4 For there are certaine men crept in, which were before of olde ordeined to this condemnation: vngodly men they are which turne the grace of our God into wantonnesse, and denie God the onely Lord, and our Lord Iesus Christ.