1 Peter 2:8
and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
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- Isa 8:14 : 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.
- Rom 9:22 : 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
- 1 Cor 1:23 : 23 but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,
- Rom 9:32-33 : 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."
- 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
- Jude 1:4 : 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.
- Exod 9:16 : 16 but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;
- Isa 57:14 : 14 He will say, "Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people."
- Luke 2:34 : 34 and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
- 2 Cor 2:16 : 16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
- 1 Thess 5:9 : 9 For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 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,"
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3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
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."
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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;
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- Isa 8:14-152 verses82%
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."
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- Luke 20:17-182 verses76%
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."
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22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.
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8 According as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day."
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10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."
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13 Therefore the word of Yahweh will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
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12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;
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18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
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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.