The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
1 Corinthians 3:9 - New Revised Standard Version For we are God's servants, working together; you are God's field, God's building. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For we are fellow workmen (joint promoters, laborers together) with and for God; you are God's garden and vineyard and field under cultivation, [you are] God's building. [Isa. 61:3.] American Standard Version (1901) For we are God’s fellow-workers: ye are God’s husbandry, God’s building. Common English Bible We are God’s coworkers, and you are God’s field, God’s building. Catholic Public Domain Version For we are God's assistants. You are God's cultivation; you are God's construction. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For we are God's coadjutors: you are God's husbandry; you are God's building. |
The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
May there be abundance of grain in the land; may it wave on the tops of the mountains; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field.
Happy will you be who sow beside every stream, who let the ox and the donkey range freely.
For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
to provide for those who mourn in Zion— to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit. They will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, to display his glory.
Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, foreigners shall till your land and dress your vines;
Yet I planted you as a choice vine, from the purest stock. How then did you turn degenerate and become a wild vine?
He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;
And they went out and proclaimed the good news everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that accompanied it.]
This Jesus is ‘the stone that was rejected by you, the builders; it has become the cornerstone.’
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?
As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.
Christ, however, was faithful over God's house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope.
like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Therefore we ought to support such people, so that we may become co-workers with the truth.