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它又

“作了绊脚的石头,

使人跌倒的盘石。”

他们跌倒是因为不顺从这道,他们这样是必然的。

然而你们是蒙拣选的族类,是君尊的祭司,是圣洁的国民,是属 神的子民,为要叫你们宣扬那召你们出黑暗入奇妙光明者的美德。

10 “你们从前不是子民,

现在却是 神的子民;

从前未蒙怜恤,

现在却蒙了怜恤。”

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and,

“A stone that causes people to stumble
    and a rock that makes them fall.”[a](A)

They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.(B)

But you are a chosen people,(C) a royal priesthood,(D) a holy nation,(E) God’s special possession,(F) that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.(G) 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God;(H) once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:8 Isaiah 8:14