6. For in Scripture it says:‘See, I lay a stone in Zion,a chosen and precious cornerstone,and the one who trusts in himwill never be put to shame.’
7. Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,‘The stone the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone,’
8. and,‘A stone that causes people to stumbleand a rock that makes them fall.’They stumble because they disobey the message – which is also what they were destined for.
9. But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.