Building a Life on Jesus

<p>1 Peter 2:4-10</p><p><br></p><p>English Standard Version</p><p><br></p><p>As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture:</p><p>“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,</p><p>    a cornerstone chosen and precious,</p><p>and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”</p><p>So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,</p><p>“The stone that the builders rejected</p><p>    has become the cornerstone,”</p><p>and</p><p>“A stone of stumbling,</p><p>    and a rock of offense.”</p><p>They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.</p><p>But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.</p>