⁴As you come to him, a living stone—rejected by people but chosen and honored by^G God—⁵you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood^H to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God^f through Jesus Christ. ⁶For it stands in Scripture:

See, I lay a stone in Zion,^g

a chosen and honored^I cornerstone,^h

and the one who believes in him

will never be put to shame.^Jⁱ

⁷So honor will come to you who believe; but for the unbelieving,

The stone that the builders rejected—

this one has become the cornerstone,^K^j

⁸and

A stone to stumble over,

and a rock to trip over.^L^k

They stumble because they disobey the word; they were destined^l for this.

⁹But you are a chosen race,^M^N^m a royal priesthood,^Oⁿ a holy nation,^P^o a people for his possession,^Q^p so that you may proclaim the praises^R^S^q of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.^r ¹⁰Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy,^s but now you have received mercy.

A CALL TO GOOD WORKS

¹¹Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles^t to abstain^u from sinful^v desires that wage war against the soul.^w ¹²Conduct^x yourselves honorably among the Gentiles,^A so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.^y

Read in Logos

1 Peter 2:7: So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone …”

Footnotes

GOr precious to
HOr you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house for a holy priesthood
IOr precious
MOr generation, or nation
ROr the mighty deeds
AOr among the nations, or among the pagans

Cross references

f Rm 12:1; Heb 13:15
g Ps 9:11; Heb 12:22
h Eph 2:20
J Is 28:16
i Is 28:16; Rm 9:33; 10:11
K Ps 118:22
j Ps 118:22; Mt 21:42; Lk 20:17; Ac 4:11
L Is 8:14
k Is 8:14; Rm 9:33; 14:20
l Ac 2:23; 4:27–28; Rm 9:22; 11:7; Jd 4
N Dt 7:6; 10:15; Is 43:20
m Dt 7:6; 10:15; Is 43:20
O Ex 19:6; 23:22 ; Is 61:6
n Is 61:6; Rv 1:6; 5:10; 20:6
P Ex 19:6; 23:22
o Ex 19:6
Q Ex 19:5; 23:22 ; Dt 4:20; 7:6; Is 43:21
p Ex 34:9; Dt 7:6; Ps 33:12; Is 43:21; Ti 2:14
S Is 42:12; 43:21
q Is 42:12; 43:21
r Is 9:2; Ac 26:18; Eph 5:8; Col 1:12–13
s Mt 5:7; Mk 5:19; Lk 1:50
t 1Pt 1:1
u 1Tm 4:3
v Rm 7:23; Php 3:3
w Gl 5:17; Jms 4:1
x 2Pt 3:11
y Is 10:3; Jr 6:15; 8:12; 10:15; Lk 1:68; 7:16; 19:44