- For this is contained in Scripture: "BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."
- This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, "THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone,"
- and, "A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE"; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.
- But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
- for you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD; 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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