This blog features prayers and Scriptures. I pray that you enjoy and be blessed. The Bible Scriptures are from the New and Old Testaments.
Mary
Friday, February 3, 2012
The Living Stone And A Chosen People (I Peter 2:1-12) GNT
This word is the Good News that was proclaimed to you.
1 Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no
more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language.
2 Be like newborn babies, always thirsty for the pure
spiritual milk, so that by drinking it you may grow up and be saved.
3 As
the scripture says, You have found out for yourselves how kind the
Lord is.
4 Come to the Lord, the living
stone rejected by people as worthless but chosen by God as valuable.
5 Come as living stones, and let yourselves
be used in building the spiritual temple, where you will serve as holy priests
to offer spiritual and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ.
6 For
the scripture says, I chose a valuable stone, which I am placing as the cornerstone in Zion; and whoever
believes in him will never be disappointed.
7 This
stone is of great value for you that believe; but for those who do not
believe: The stone which the builders rejected as
worthless turned out to be the most important of all.
8 And
another scripture says, "This is the stone that will make
people stumble, the rock that will make them fall. They stumbled because they did not believe in the word; such was God's
will for them.
9 But
you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people,
chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness
into his own marvelous light.
10 At
one time you were not God's people, but now you are his people; at one time you
did not know God's mercy, but now you have received his mercy.
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