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Travelers about to visit a foreign country often study a guidebook with information about that country. Especially helpful are clear, easy-to-use maps, background information on the local area, and articles about important sites to visit. Similarly, the Bible confronts many readers today with a kind of “foreign country in writing” whose customs and culture aren’t always clear. The Eerdmans...

framework for the exhortation that Christians join themselves to Jesus by embodying “living stones” comprising the spiritual temple of God (Isa. 28:16; Ps. 118:22). Originally, the texts quoted in verses 9–10 uniquely addressed the chosen Hebrew people, but Peter applies them more universally because of Christ’s widening the door of salvation for the Gentiles. For the Christian living among unbelievers (generalized as “Gentiles”), excellent behavior characterized
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