1 Peter 2:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ and “A stone of stumbling and a rock that makes for falling,” who stumble because they are disobedien to the Word, to which they also were appointed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ and A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And, A Stone that will cause stumbling and a Rock that will give [men] offense; they stumble because they disobey and disbelieve [God's] Word, as those [who reject Him] were destined (appointed) to do.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

Common English Bible

⁸ This is a stone that makes people stumble and a rock that makes them fall. Because they refuse to believe in the word, they stumble. Indeed, this is the end to which they were appointed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ and a stone of offense, and a rock of scandal, to those who are offended by the Word; neither do they believe, though they also have been built upon him.

1 Peter 2:8 Cross References

Job 23:14

For He completes my portion, and many like these are with Him.

Exodus 9:16

“And for this reason I have raised you up, in order to show you My power, and in order to declare My Name in all the earth.

Isaiah 37:26

“Have you not heard long ago how I made it, from days of old, that I formed it? Now I have brought it about, that you should be for crushing walled cities into heaps of ruins.

Isaiah 57:14

And one shall say, “Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way, take the stumbling-block out of the way of My people.”

Isaiah 8:14

“And He shall be for a set-apart place, but a stone of stumbling and a rock that makes for falling to both the houses of Yisra’ĕ

Luke 2:34

And Shimʽ

Romans 9:22

And if Elohim, desiring to show wrath, and to make His power known, with much patience tolerated the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

1 Corinthians 1:23

yet we proclaim Messiah impaled, to the Yehuḏ

2 Corinthians 2:16

To the one we are the smell of death to death, and to the other the fragrance of life to life. And who is competent for these?

Galatians 5:11

And I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling-block of the stake has been set aside.

1 Thessalonians 5:9

Because Elohim did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain deliverance through our Master יהושע  Messiah,

1 Peter 2:6

Because it is contained in the Scripture, “See, I lay in Tsiyon a chief corner-stone, chosen, precious, and he who believes on Him shall by no means be put to shame.”

1 Peter 2:7

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,”

2 Peter 2:3

and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

Jude 1:4

For certain men have slipped in, whose judgment was written about long ago, wicked ones perverting the favour of our Elohim for indecency, and denying the only Master יהוה  and our Master יהושע  Messiah.