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1 Peter 2:4-10 NIV
4 As you
come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and
precious to him—
5 you also, like living stones, are being built into
a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual
sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6 For in Scripture
it says:
"See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
will never be put to shame."
7 Now to you who believe, this stone
is precious. But to those who do not believe,
"The stone the builders rejected
has become the capstone,"
8 and,
"A stone that causes men to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble because they
disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who
called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
10 Once you were
not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not
received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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