Have you not heard from afar? I have made it from days of old, even I formed it. Now I have caused it to come, and you are to cause fortified cities to crash into heaps, ruins.
And He shall be for a sanctuary, and become a Stone-of-Stumbling and shall be a Rock -of-Falling to the two houses of Israel; for a trap and for a snare to the one living in Jerusalem.
And Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mariam (Mary), Behold, this One is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;
But if God, desiring to display wrath, and to make His power known, endured in much long-suffering vessels of wrath having been fitted out for destruction,
Therefore, it is also contained in the Scripture: “Behold, I lay in Zion” an elect, “precious Stone,” “a Corner-foundation”; “and the one believing on Him shall not be put to shame, not ever!” Isa. 28:16
Therefore to you, the ones believing, belongs the preciousness. But to disobeying ones, He is the “Stone which the ones building rejected; this One became the Head of the Corner,” Psa. 118:22
For certain men slipped in stealthily, the ones having been of old written before to this judgment, ungodly ones perverting the grace of our God into unbridled lust, and denying the only Master, God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.