Cornerstone

DANIEL 2:34-35- AS YOU LOOKED, A STONE WAS CUT OUT BY NO HUMAN HAND, AND IT STRUCK THE IMAGE ON ITS FEET OF IRON AND CLAY, AND BROKE THEM IN PIECES.  THEN THE IRON, THE CLAY, THE BRONZE, THE SILVER, AND THE GOLD, ALL TOGETHER WERE BROKEN IN PIECES, AND BECAME LIKE THE CHAFF OF THE SUMMER THRESHING FLOORS; AND THE WIND CARRIED THEM AWAY, SO THAT NOT A TRACE OF THEM COULD BE FOUND.  BUT THE STONE THAT STRUCK THE IMAGE BECAME A GREAT MOUNTAIN AND FILLED THE EARTH.  

ISAIAH 28:16- THEREFORE THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD, BEHOLD, I AM THE ONE WHO HAS LAID AS A FOUNDATION IN ZION, A STONE, A TESTED STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNERSTONE, OF A SURE FOUNDATION: WHOEVER BELIEVES WILL NOT BE IN HASTE. 

1 PETER 2:1-8- SO PUT AWAY ALL MALICE AND ALL DECEIT AND HYPOCRISY AND ENVY AND ALL SLANDER.  LIKE NEWBORN INFANTS, LONG FOR THE PURE SPIRITUAL MILK, THAT BY IT YOU MAY GROW UP INTO SALVATION- IF INDEED YOU HAVE TASTED THAT THE LORD IS GOOD.  AS YOU COME TO HIM, A LIVING STONE REJECTED BY HUMANS 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: BEHOLD, I AM LAYING IN ZION A STONE, A CORNERSTONE CHOSEN AND PRECIOUS, AND WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME.  SO THE HONOR IS FOR YOU WHO BELIEVE, BUT FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE, THE STONE THAT THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS BECOME THE CORNERSTONE, AND A STONE OF STUMBLING, AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE.  THEY STUMBLE BECAUSE THEY DISOBEY THE WORD, AS THEY WERE DESTINED TO DO.