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For it says[a] in scripture, “Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone,[b] and whoever believes[c] in him[d] will never[e] be put to shame.”[f]

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  1. 1 Peter 2:6 tn Grk “it contains,” “it stands.”
  2. 1 Peter 2:6 tn Grk “chosen, precious.”
  3. 1 Peter 2:6 tn Grk “the one who believes.”
  4. 1 Peter 2:6 tn Grk either “in him” or “in it,” but the OT and NT uses personify the stone as the King, the Messiah whom God will establish in Jerusalem.
  5. 1 Peter 2:6 tn The negative (οὐ μή, ou mē) is emphatic: “will certainly not.”
  6. 1 Peter 2:6 sn A quotation from Isa 28:16.