Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am laying in Tsiyon a stone for a foundation, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a settled foundation. He who trusts shall not hasten away.
1 Peter 2:4 - The Scriptures 2009 Drawing near to Him, a living Stone – rejected indeed by men, but chosen by Elohim and precious – Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Come to Him [then, to that] Living Stone which men tried and threw away, but which is chosen [and] precious in God's sight. [Ps. 118:22; Isa. 28:16.] American Standard Version (1901) unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious, Common English Bible Now you are coming to him as to a living stone. Even though this stone was rejected by humans, from God’s perspective it is chosen, valuable. Catholic Public Domain Version And approaching him as if he were a living stone, rejected by men, certainly, but elect and honored by God, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and made honourable by God: |
Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am laying in Tsiyon a stone for a foundation, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a settled foundation. He who trusts shall not hasten away.
“See, My Servant whom I uphold, My Chosen One My being has delighted in! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He brings forth right-ruling to the nations.
“Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, so that your being lives. And let Me make an everlasting covenant with you, the trustworthy loving-commitments of Dawiḏ.
“Return, O backsliding children, I shall make your backslidings cease.” “See, we have come to You, for You are יהוה our Elohim.
“You were looking on, until a stone was cut out without hands, and it smote the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
“Because you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great Elah has made known to the sovereign what shall be after this. And the dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy.”
See the stone which I have put before Yehoshua: on one stone are seven eyes. See, I am engraving its inscription,’ declares יהוה of hosts, ‘and I shall remove the guilt of that land in one day.
Who are you, great mountain, before Zerubbaḇel? A plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of “Favour, favour to it!” ‘ ”
“Come to Me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I shall give you rest.
“See, My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My being did delight. I shall put My Spirit upon Him, and He shall declare right-ruling to the nations.
יהושע said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejeted has become the chief corner-stone. This was from יהוה, and it is marvellous in our eyes’?
“Yet a little while, and the world no longer sees Me, but you shall see Me, because I live, and you shall live.
יהושע said to him, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
For as the Father possesses life in Himself, so He gave also to the Son to possess life in Himself,”
“All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I shall by no means cast out.
“As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me shall live because of Me.
For if, being enemies, we were restored to favour with Elohim through the death of His Son, much more, having been restored to favour, we shall be saved by His life.
For no one is able to lay any other foundation except that which is laid, which is יהושע Messiah.
When the Messiah, who is our life, is manifested, then you also shall be manifested with Him in esteem.
but with the precious blood of Messiah, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless,
in order that the proving of your belief – much more precious than gold that perishes, and proven by fire – might be found to result in praise and respect and esteem at the revelation of יהושע Messiah,
This preciousness, then, is for you who believe; but to those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner-stone,”
Shim‛on Kĕpha, a servant and emissary of יהושע Messiah, to those who have obtained a belief as precious as ours by the righteousness of our Elohim and Saviour יהושע Messiah:
Through these there have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, so that through these you might be partakers of the Mighty-like nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world, caused by lust.