1 Peter 2:4

Weymouth NT

Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour.

Cross References

Matthew 11:28

»Come to me, all you toiling and burdened ones, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 12:18

»This is My servant whom I have chosen, My dearly loved One in whom My soul takes pleasure. I will put My spirit upon Him, and He will announce justice to the nations.

Matthew 21:42

»Have you never read in the Scriptures,« said Jesus, »`The Stone which the builders rejected has been made the Cornerstone: this Cornerstone came from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes'?«

John 14:19

Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.

John 14:6

»I am the Way,« replied Jesus, »and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 5:26

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has also given to the Son to have life in Himself.

John 5:40

and yet you are unwilling to come to me that you may have Life.

John 6:37

Every one whom the Father gives me will come to me, and him who comes to me I will never on any account drive away.

John 6:57

As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.

Romans 5:10

For if while we were hostile to God we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, it is still more certain that now that we are reconciled, we shall obtain salvation through Christ's life.

1 Corinthians 3:11

For no one can lay any other foundation in addition to that which is already laid, namely Jesus Christ.

Colossians 3:4

When Christ appears –He is our true Life– then you also will appear with Him in glory.

1 Peter 1:19

but with the precious blood of Christ–as of an unblemished and spotless lamb.

1 Peter 1:7

The sorrow comes in order that the testing of your faith –being more precious than that of gold, which perishes and yet is proved by fire– may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:7

To you believers, therefore, that honour belongs; but for unbelievers– »A Stone which the builders rejected has been made the Cornerstone,«

2 Peter 1:1

Simon Peter, a bondservant and Apostle of Jesus Christ: To those to whom there has been allotted the same precious faith as that which is ours through the righteousness of our God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:4

It is by means of these that He has granted us His precious and wondrous promises, in order that through them you may, one and all, become sharers in the very nature of God, having completely escaped the corruption which exists in the world through earthly cravings.