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 which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
• Acts 4:11–12This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
• Mark 12:10–11And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
• Matt 21:42Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
• 1 Pet 2:8And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
• Rom 15:31That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;
• Rom 10:21But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
• Acts 26:19Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
• John 4:42And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
• Heb 4:11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
• Heb 11:31By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
• Luke 20:17And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
• Col 2:10And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
• Phil 3:7–10But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
• 1 Pet 1:8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
• Song 5:9–16What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?
• 2 Cor 2:16To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Luke 2:32A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
• Matt 13:44–46Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
• Zech 4:7Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
• John 6:68–69Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
• Isa 28:5In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
• Hag 2:7And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.

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