- For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
- Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, "The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone,"
- and, "A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble because they disobey the message--which is also what they were destined for.
- But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
- Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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- 因為經上說、『看哪、我把所揀選所寶貴的房角石、安放在錫安.信靠他的人、必不至於羞愧。』
- 所以他在你們信的人就為寶貴、在那不信的人有話說、『匠人所棄的石頭、已作了房角的頭塊石頭。』
- 又說、『作了絆腳的石頭、跌人的磐石。』他們既不順從、就在道理上絆跌.〔或作他們絆跌都因不順從道理〕他們這樣絆跌也是豫定的。
- 惟有你們是被揀選的族類、是有君尊的祭司、是聖潔的國度、是屬 神的子民、要叫你們宣揚那召你們出黑暗入奇妙光明者的美德。
- 你們從前算不得子民、現在卻作了 神的子民.從前未曾蒙憐恤、現在卻蒙了憐恤。
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