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1 Peter 2:5-7
New Testament for Everyone
1 Peter 2:5-7
New Testament for Everyone
5 Like living stones yourselves, you are being built up into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices that will be well pleasing to God through Jesus the Messiah.
6 That’s why it stands in scripture:
Look! I’m setting up in Zion
a chosen, precious cornerstone;
believe in him! You’ll not be ashamed.
7 He is indeed precious for you believers. But when people don’t believe, “the stone which the builders rejected has become the head cornerstone,”
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1 Peter 2:5-7
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1 Peter 2:5-7
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5 you also, like living stones, are being built(A) into a spiritual house[a](B) to be a holy priesthood,(C) offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.(D) 6 For in Scripture it says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,(E)
and the one who trusts in him
will never be put to shame.”[b](F)
7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,(G)
Footnotes
- 1 Peter 2:5 Or into a temple of the Spirit
- 1 Peter 2:6 Isaiah 28:16
- 1 Peter 2:7 Psalm 118:22
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