1 Peter 2:7

To believers Christ is precious and honored, but to the disobedient he is the stone the builders rejected, now made the chief cornerstone. People's response to Christ reveals their relationship to God.

Cross-references · 24

• Ps 118:22–23The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• Acts 4:11–12This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’
• Mark 12:10–11Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• Matt 21:42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
• 1 Pet 2:8and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.
• Rom 15:31Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there,
• Rom 10:21But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
• Acts 26:19So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
• John 4:42They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”
• Heb 4:11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
• Heb 11:31By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies in peace, did not perish with those who were disobedient.
• Luke 20:17But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?
• Col 2:10And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority.
• Phil 3:7–10But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
• 1 Pet 1:8Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
• Song 5:9–16How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?
• 2 Cor 2:16To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”
• Matt 13:44–46The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.
• Zech 4:7What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”
• John 6:68–69Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• Isa 28:5On that day the LORD of Hosts will be a crown of glory, a diadem of splendor to the remnant of His people,
• Hag 2:7I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.

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