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And,

“He is the stone that makes people stumble,
    the rock that makes them fall.”[a]

They stumble because they do not obey God’s word, and so they meet the fate that was planned for them.

But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests,[b] a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:8 Isa 8:14.
  2. 2:9 Greek a royal priesthood.

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