8. and“A stone that will make people stumble,and a rock that will make them fall.”They stumble by disobeying the word, as is their destiny.
9. But you are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
10. Once you were “no people”but now you are God’s people;you “had not received mercy”but now you have received mercy.