- 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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- 因为经上说,看哪,我把所拣选所宝贵的房角石,安放在锡安。信靠他的人,必不至于羞愧。
- 所以他在你们信的人就为宝贵,在那不信的人有话说,匠人所弃的石头,已作了房角的头块石头。
- 又说,作了绊脚的石头,跌人的磐石。他们既不顺从,就在道理上绊跌。(或作他们绊跌都因不顺从道理)他们这样绊跌也是豫定的。
- 惟有你们是被拣选的族类,是有君尊的祭司,是圣洁的国度,是属神的子民,要叫你们宣扬那召你们出黑暗入奇妙光明者的美德。
- 你们从前算不得子民,现在却作了神的子民。从前未曾蒙怜恤,现在却蒙了怜恤。
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