Bible verse for July 27

⁶ For it stands in Scripture: “See, I am laying in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame.” ⁷ So this honor is for you who believe. But for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” ⁸ and, “A stone to strike against and a rock to stumble over.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. ⁹ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people God has made his own, so that you may announce the great deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his amazing light. ¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. ¹¹ Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which wage war against the soul. ¹² Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day when he visits.

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