1 Peter 2:4

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1 Peter 2:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

4 As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

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 it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

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Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant— My loving devotion promised to David.

Jeremiah 3:22

“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.

Matthew 11:28

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

John 5:40

yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

John 6:37

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

John 5:26

For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

John 6:57

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

John 11:26

And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 14:19

In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.

Romans 5:10

For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

Colossians 3:4

When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

Isaiah 28:16

So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.

Daniel 2:34

As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

Daniel 2:45

And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

Zechariah 3:9

See the stone I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave on it an inscription, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.

Zechariah 4:7

What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”

Psalms 118:22

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Psalms 118:23

This is from the LORD, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

Isaiah 8:14

And He will be a sanctuary— but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.

Isaiah 8:15

Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

Matthew 21:42

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Mark 12:10

Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Mark 12:11

This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

Luke 20:17

But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

Luke 20:18

Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”

Acts 4:11

This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’

Acts 4:12

Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

Isaiah 42:1

“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

Matthew 12:18

“Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.

1 Peter 2:7

To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”

1 Peter 1:7

so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:19

but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

2 Peter 1:1

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:

2 Peter 1:4

Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.