to whom coming — a living stone — by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,
and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: ‘Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;’
to you, then, who are believing [is] the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,
and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence — who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, — to which also they were set;
and ye [are] a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
who [were] once not a people, and [are] now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.
Beloved, I call upon [you], as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,
having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.
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