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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1PE.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As you come to him, the living Stone&#8212;rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">into a temple of the Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For in Scripture it says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I lay a stone in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">a chosen and precious cornerstone,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">and the one who trusts in him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">will never be put to shame.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:6 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 28:16</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">&#8220;The stone the builders rejected</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">has become the cornerstone,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 118:22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">&#8220;A stone that causes people to stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">and a rock that makes them fall.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:14</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">They stumble because they disobey the message&#8212;which is also what they were destined for.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1PE.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God&#8217;s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">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.</span></span></div>
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