Peter uses this imagery of stones and buildings to talk about our relationship to Christ. It had to be perfect, reliable, strong, and sure. Small flaws or errors in the cornerstone or the placing of the cornerstone would affect the whole building. It was the most important stone in the most important place of a massive structure of stones. Historically, though, the cornerstone has been the first stone laid, the stone on which every other stone is built. ![]() Today, a cornerstone is typically a large slab of concrete placed at a prominent corner or place around the outside of a building with important information inscribed into it, like the date it was finished. ![]() For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” (1 Peter 2:4–6) 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.
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