1 Peter 2:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

to whom coming -- a living stone -- by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,

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  • 1 Pet 2:7 : 7 to you, then, who are believing `is' the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,
  • Acts 4:11-12 : 11 `This is the stone that was set at nought by you -- the builders, that became head of a corner; 12 and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'
  • Ps 118:22-23 : 22 A stone the builders refused Hath become head of a corner. 23 From Jehovah hath this been, It `is' wonderful in our eyes,
  • Isa 8:14-15 : 14 And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.
  • Isa 28:16 : 16 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone -- a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste.
  • Isa 42:1 : 1 Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.
  • Jer 3:22 : 22 Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou `art' Jehovah our God.
  • Dan 2:34 : 34 Thou wast looking till that a stone hath been cut out without hands, and it hath smitten the image on its feet, that `are' of iron and of clay, and it hath broken them small;
  • Dan 2:45 : 45 Because that thou hast seen that out of the mountain cut hath been a stone without hands, and it hath beaten small the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king that which `is' to be after this; and the dream `is' true, and its interpretation stedfast.
  • Zech 3:9 : 9 For lo, the stone that I put before Joshua, On one stone `are' seven eyes, Lo, I am graving its graving, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I have removed the iniquity of that land in one day.
  • Zech 4:7 : 7 Who `art' thou, O great mountain Before Zerubbabel -- for a plain! And he hath brought forth the top-stone, Cries of Grace, grace -- `are' to it.'
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,
  • Matt 12:18 : 18 `Lo, My servant, whom I did choose, My beloved, in whom My soul did delight, I will put My Spirit upon him, and judgment to the nations he shall declare,
  • Matt 21:42 : 42 Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.
  • Mark 12:10-11 : 10 And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner: 11 from the Lord was this, and it is wonderful in our eyes.'
  • Luke 20:17-18 : 17 and he, having looked upon them, said, `What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected -- this became head of a corner? 18 every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.'
  • John 5:26 : 26 for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself,
  • John 5:40 : 40 and ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life;
  • John 6:37 : 37 all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,
  • John 6:57 : 57 `According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live; 26 and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age;
  • Rom 5:10 : 10 for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.
  • Col 3:4 : 4 when the Christ -- our life -- may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
  • 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --
  • 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.
  • John 14:19 : 19 yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

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

    6Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: `Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;'

    7to you, then, who are believing `is' the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,

    8and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;

    9and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

    10who `were' once not a people, and `are' now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.

    11Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

  • Acts 4:11
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    11`This is the stone that was set at nought by you -- the builders, that became head of a corner;

  • 1 Pet 2:2-3
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    2as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

    3if so be ye did taste that the Lord `is' gracious,

  • Ps 118:22
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    22A stone the builders refused Hath become head of a corner.

  • Mark 12:10
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    10And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner:

  • Luke 20:17-18
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    17and he, having looked upon them, said, `What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected -- this became head of a corner?

    18every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.'

  • 1 Pet 1:18-23
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    18having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

    19but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --

    20foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

    21who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

    22Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

    23being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God -- living and remaining -- to the age;

  • Eph 2:19-22
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    19Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

    20being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-`stone',

    21in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,

    22in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

  • Matt 21:42
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    42Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

  • Isa 28:16
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    16Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone -- a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste.

  • Rom 9:32-33
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    32wherefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

    33according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'

  • 1 Pet 1:1-4
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    1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

    2according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!

    3Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

    4to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

  • 1 Cor 3:10-12
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    10According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on `it',

    11for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;

    12and if any one doth build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw --

  • 1 Pet 1:6-8
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    6in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

    7that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

    8whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

  • 2 Pet 1:1
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    1Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

  • 1 Pet 2:25
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    25for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

  • Acts 4:8
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    8Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

  • Matt 21:44
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    44and he who is falling on this stone shall be broken, and on whomsoever it may fall it will crush him to pieces.'

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.

  • 1 Pet 4:12
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    12Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

  • 1 Pet 5:4
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    4and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

  • 1 Cor 1:28
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    28and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --

  • 2 Pet 1:11
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    11for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

  • Jude 1:17
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    17and ye, beloved, remember ye the sayings spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  • Jude 1:4
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    4for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord -- Jesus Christ -- denying,