1 Peter 2:4

World English Bible (2000)

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

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  • 1 Pet 2:7 : 7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"
  • Acts 4:11-12 : 11 He is 'the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.' 12 There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!"
  • Ps 118:22-23 : 22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. 23 This is Yahweh's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.
  • Isa 8:14-15 : 14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured."
  • Isa 28:16 : 16 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
  • Isa 42:1 : 1 "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights-- I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
  • Jer 3:22 : 22 Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. "Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
  • Dan 2:34 : 34 You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
  • Dan 2:45 : 45 Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.
  • Zech 3:9 : 9 For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
  • Zech 4:7 : 7 Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of 'Grace, grace, to it!'"
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
  • Matt 12:18 : 18 "Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.
  • Matt 21:42 : 42 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'
  • Mark 12:10-11 : 10 Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. 11 This was from the Lord, it is marvelous in our eyes'?"
  • Luke 20:17-18 : 17 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?' 18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."
  • John 5:26 : 26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
  • John 5:40 : 40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
  • John 6:37 : 37 All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
  • John 6:57 : 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. 26 Whoever 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, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
  • Col 3:4 : 4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ--
  • 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;
  • 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
  • John 14:19 : 19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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    5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

    6 Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed."

    7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"

    8 and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

    9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

    10 who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

    11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

  • Acts 4:11
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    11 He is 'the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.'

  • 1 Pet 2:2-3
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    2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,

    3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:

  • Ps 118:22
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    22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.

  • Mark 12:10
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    10 Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.

  • Luke 20:17-18
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    17 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?'

    18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."

  • 1 Pet 1:18-23
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    18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

    19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

    20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,

    21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

    22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

    23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

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

    20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

    21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

    22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

  • Matt 21:42
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    42 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'

  • Isa 28:16
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    16 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

  • Rom 9:32-33
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    32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

    33 even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."

  • 1 Pet 1:1-4
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    1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

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    3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

    4 to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

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    10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

    11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

    12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;

  • 1 Pet 1:6-8
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    6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

    7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ--

    8 whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory--

  • 2 Pet 1:1
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    1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

  • 1 Pet 2:25
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    25 For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

  • Acts 4:8
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    8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

  • Matt 21:44
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    44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

  • 1 Pet 4:12
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    12 Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

  • 1 Pet 5:4
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    4 When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn't fade away.

  • 1 Cor 1:28
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    28 and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

  • 2 Pet 1:11
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    11 For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

  • Jude 1:17
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    17 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.