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1 Peter 2:5-7
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5 And you yourselves, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it stands in scripture,

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”[a]

7 Therefore the honor is for you who believe, but for those who refuse to believe,

“The stone that the builders rejected,
this one has become the cornerstone[b],”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:6 A quotation from Isa 28:16
  2. 1 Peter 2:7 Literally “into the head of the corner”
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