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“Let us break their chains,” they cry,
    “and free ourselves from slavery to God.”

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So I will go and speak to their leaders.
    Surely they know the ways of the Lord
    and understand God’s laws.”
But the leaders, too, as one man,
    had thrown off God’s yoke
    and broken his chains.

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Yes, you who trust him recognize the honor God has given him.[a] But for those who reject him,

“The stone that the builders rejected
    has now become the cornerstone.”[b]

And,

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. 2:7a Or Yes, for you who believe, there is honor.
  2. 2:7b Ps 118:22.
  3. 2:8 Isa 8:14.

27 And as for these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to be their king—bring them in and execute them right here in front of me.’”

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14 But his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want him to be our king.’

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