⁴to whom you are drawing near, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in the sight of God. ⁵And 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. ⁶For 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.”^b

⁷Therefore 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^c,”

⁸and

“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,”^d

who stumble because they^* disobey the word to which also they were consigned. ⁹But you are a chosen race,^e a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light, ¹⁰who once were not a people, but now are the people of God, the ones who were not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy.^f

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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

bA quotation from Isa 28:16
cLiterally “into the head of the corner”
dA quotation from Isa 8:14
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“disobey”) which is understood as causal
eOr “people,” or “generation,” or “nation”
fThis verse contains quotations from Hos 1:6, 9; 2:23