“Incline your ear and come to Me.
Listen, that you may live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
According to the faithful mercies shown to David.

“Return, O faithless sons,

I will heal your faithlessness.”

“Behold, we come to You;
For You are the Lord our God.

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.

A living

For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved

by His life.

When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

Stone

Therefore thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone,
A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed.
He who believes in it will not be disturbed.

You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.

For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave an inscription on it,’ declares the Lord of hosts, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

‘What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”’”

Disallowed

The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner stone.

“Then He shall become a sanctuary;
But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over,
And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jesus *said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures,
‘The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone;
This came about from the Lord,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Have you not even read this Scripture:
‘The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief corner stone;

But Jesus looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written:
‘The stone which the builders rejected,
This became

the chief corner

stone’?

He is the stone which was

rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief corner stone.

Chosen

“Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold;
My chosen one in whom My soul delights.
I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the nations.

“Behold, My

Servant whom I have chosen;

My Beloved in whom My soul

is well-pleased;

I will put My Spirit upon Him,

And He shall proclaim

justice to the

Gentiles.

Precious

This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve,

“The stone which the builders

rejected,

This became the very corner stone,”

so that the

proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

General references

But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here.