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and of Isaiah:

A stone that blocks their way,
    a rock that trips them.[a]

They stumble because they don’t follow the word of God, as they were destined to do.

But you are a chosen people, set aside to be a royal order of priests, a holy nation, God’s own; so that you may proclaim the wondrous acts of the One who called you out of inky darkness into shimmering light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received it.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:8 Isaiah 8:14

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