1 Peter 2:8 BSB — MannaFest

1 Peter 2:8

and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.

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ASV

and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

KJV

And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

A stone of stumbling - Because in him all Jews and Gentiles who believe are united; and because the latter were admitted into the Church, and called by the Gospel to enjoy the same privileges which the Jews, as the peculiar people of God, had enjoyed for two thousand years before; therefore they rejected the Christian religion, they would have no partakers with themselves in the salvation of God. This was the true cause why the Jews rejected the Gospel; and they rejected Christ because he did not come as a secular prince.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They could not be brought to seek justification by faith, but as it were by the works of the law; for they stumbled at that stumbling-stone, Rom. ix. (2.) The same blessed Jesus who is the author of salvation to some is to others the occasion of their sin and destruction. He is set for the rising and fall of many in Israel.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1224: “Jesus, The Stumbling Stone Of Unbelievers” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1875)

So it always is where Jesus comes—He divides the company into Believers and unbelievers—the obedient and the disobedient. But why are unbelievers, here, called disobedient? Is faith a matter of law and because a man does not believe, does he therefore disobey? How can it be otherwise? Is it not a natural duty for every man to believe that which is true? Let the very least among us judge in so simple a matter!

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"Were appointed," Greek, "set," answers to "I lay," Greek, "set," 1Pe 2:6. God, in the active, is said to appoint Christ and the elect (directly). Unbelievers, in the passive, are said to be appointed (God acting less directly in the appointment of the sinner's awful course) [BENGEL].

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
λίθος	lithos	A stone	G3037 →
προσκόμματος	proskommatos	of stumbling	G4348 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πέτρα	petra	a rock	G4073 →
σκανδάλου,	skandalou	of offense,	G4625 →
οἳ	hoi	[They]	G3739 →
προσκόπτουσιν	proskoptousin	stumble at	G4350 →
τῷ	tō	on the	G3588 →
λόγῳ	logō	word	G3056 →
ἀπειθοῦντες,	apeithountes	being disobedient,	G544 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
ὃ	ho	which	G3739 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ἐτέθησαν·	etethēsan	they were appointed;	G5087 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Peter 2:7
To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
leads to
- Psalms 118:22–23
  The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
- Mark 12:10–11
  Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
- Acts 4:11–12
  This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’
Through
Romans 9:22
What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
leads to
- Proverbs 16:4
  The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
- Jude 1:4
  For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only…
Through
1 Corinthians 1:23
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 2:14
  The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- 1 Corinthians 2:2
  For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
Through
Isaiah 8:14
And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.
leads to
- Romans 9:32–33
  Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 1 Peter

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 1 Peter