1 Peter 2:4

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A Living Stone, a Chosen People So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

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  • 1 Pet 2:7 : 7 So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,
  • Acts 4:11-12 : 11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone. 12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”
  • Ps 118:22-23 : 22 The stone which the builders discarded has become the cornerstone. 23 This is the LORD’s work. We consider it amazing!
  • Isa 8:14-15 : 14 He will become a sanctuary, but a stone that makes a person trip, and a rock that makes one stumble– to the two houses of Israel. He will become a trap and a snare to the residents of Jerusalem. 15 Many will stumble over the stone and the rock, and will fall and be seriously injured, and will be ensnared and captured.”
  • Isa 28:16 : 16 Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD, says:“Look, I am laying a stone in Zion, an approved stone, set in place as a precious cornerstone for the foundation. The one who maintains his faith will not panic.
  • Isa 42:1 : 1 The Lord Commissions His Special Servant“Here is my servant whom I support, my chosen one in whom I take pleasure. I have placed my Spirit on him; he will make just decrees for the nations.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
  • Jer 3:22 : 22 Come back to me, you wayward people. I want to cure your waywardness. Say,‘Here we are. We come to you because you are the LORD our God.
  • Dan 2:34 : 34 You were watching as a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its iron and clay feet, breaking them in pieces.
  • Dan 2:45 : 45 You saw that a stone was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands; it smashed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold into pieces. The great God has made known to the king what will occur in the future. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is reliable.”
  • Zech 3:9 : 9 As for the stone I have set before Joshua– on the one stone there are seven eyes. I am about to engrave an inscription on it,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,‘to the effect that I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.
  • Zech 4:7 : 7 Oracle of Response“What are you, you great mountain? Because of Zerubbabel you will become a level plain! And he will bring forth the temple capstone with shoutings of‘Grace! Grace!’ because of this.”
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
  • Matt 12:18 : 18 “Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I take great delight. I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
  • Matt 21:42 : 42 Jesus said to them,“Have you never read in the scriptures:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
  • Mark 12:10-11 : 10 Have you not read this scripture:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 11 This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
  • Luke 20:17-18 : 17 But Jesus looked straight at them and said,“Then what is the meaning of that which is written:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’? 18 Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”
  • John 5:26 : 26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
  • John 5:40 : 40 but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.
  • John 6:37 : 37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.
  • John 6:57 : 57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies, 26 and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
  • Rom 5:10 : 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?
  • Col 3:4 : 4 When Christ(who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
  • 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.
  • 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 ¶ Salutation From Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, have been granted a faith just as precious as ours.
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.
  • John 14:19 : 19 In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus replied,“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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  • 1 Pet 2:5-11
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    5you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

    6For it says in scripture,“Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame.”

    7So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,

    8and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

    9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

    10You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.

    11Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

  • Acts 4:11
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    11This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone.

  • 1 Pet 2:2-3
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    2And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

    3if you have experienced the Lord’s kindness.

  • Ps 118:22
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    22The stone which the builders discarded has become the cornerstone.

  • Mark 12:10
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    10Have you not read this scripture:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

  • Luke 20:17-18
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    17But Jesus looked straight at them and said,“Then what is the meaning of that which is written:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

    18Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

  • 1 Pet 1:18-23
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    18You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold,

    19but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

    20He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

    21Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

    22You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

    23You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

  • Eph 2:19-22
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    19So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

    20because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

    21In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

    22in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

  • Matt 21:42
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    42Jesus said to them,“Have you never read in the scriptures:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

  • Isa 28:16
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    16Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD, says:“Look, I am laying a stone in Zion, an approved stone, set in place as a precious cornerstone for the foundation. The one who maintains his faith will not panic.

  • Rom 9:32-33
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    32Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but(as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

    33just as it is written,“Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

  • 1 Pet 1:1-4
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    1¶ Salutation From Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those temporarily residing abroad(in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bithynia) who are chosen

    2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with Jesus Christ’s blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure!

    3New Birth to Joy and Holiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

    4that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,

  • 1 Cor 3:10-12
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    10According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

    11For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

    12If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

  • 1 Pet 1:6-8
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    6This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials.

    7Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

    8You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

  • 2 Pet 1:1
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    1¶ Salutation From Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, have been granted a faith just as precious as ours.

  • 1 Pet 2:25
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    25For you were going astray like sheep but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

  • Acts 4:8
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    8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, replied,“Rulers of the people and elders,

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

  • Matt 21:44
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    44The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • 1 Pet 4:12
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    12Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.

  • 1 Pet 5:4
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    4Then when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that never fades away.

  • 1 Cor 1:28
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    28God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

  • 2 Pet 1:11
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    11For thus an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be richly provided for you.

  • Jude 1:17
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    17Exhortation to the Faithful But you, dear friends– recall the predictions foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.