‘The stone that the builders rejected

   has become the very head of the corner’,

and

‘A stone that makes them stumble,

   and a rock that makes them fall.’

They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

Once you were not a people,

   but now you are God’s people;

once you had not received mercy,

   but now you have received mercy.



-I Peter 2:4-10