1 Peter 2:10

Contextual Overview

⁴ The Lord Jesus is the living stone. The people of the world decided that they did not want this stone. But he is the one God chose as one of great value. So come to him. ⁴ Come to him, to that living stone, rejected by men but in God's sight chosen and precious; ⁴ to whom ye come as vnto a livynge stone disalowed of men but chosen of god and precious: ⁴ coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. ⁴ And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by people, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, ⁴ Come to the Lord Jesus, the "stone" that lives. The people of the world did not want this stone, but he was the stone God chose, and he was precious. ⁴ to whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious, ⁴ To whom coming [as to] a living stone, disallowed indeed by men, but chosen by God, [and] precious, ⁴ As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, ⁴ coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

Bible Verse Review
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were: Hosea 1:9, Hosea 1:10, Romans 9:25, Romans 9:26

obtained: Hosea 2:23, Romans 11:6, Romans 11:7, Romans 11:30, 1 Corinthians 7:25, 1 Timothy 1:13, Hebrews 4:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:7 - will take Leviticus 14:14 - General Numbers 15:41 - General Deuteronomy 27:9 - this day Deuteronomy 32:9 - the Lord's Deuteronomy 32:21 - I will 2 Samuel 7:24 - art become Psalms 18:43 - a people Psalms 102:18 - the people Psalms 118:2 - General Psalms 145:7 - abundantly Psalms 147:20 - not dealt so Song of Solomon 4:16 - Let Isaiah 19:25 - Blessed Isaiah 35:8 - The way Isaiah 55:13 - for a Isaiah 62:4 - shalt no Isaiah 65:1 - unto Isaiah 65:15 - his servants Jeremiah 17:26 - sacrifices of Daniel 4:37 - I Nebuchadnezzar Hosea 1:6 - Loruhamah Hosea 2:1 - Ruhamah Zechariah 2:11 - many Matthew 5:7 - for Matthew 28:20 - them Luke 15:6 - for Luke 19:9 - This day John 10:16 - other John 12:23 - The hour Acts 15:14 - to take Acts 27:23 - whose Romans 1:5 - for his name Romans 4:17 - calleth Romans 9:16 - General Romans 10:19 - First Romans 12:1 - by the Romans 15:8 - truth 2 Corinthians 4:1 - as 2 Corinthians 6:14 - and what Ephesians 1:13 - ye also Ephesians 2:3 - in times 1 Thessalonians 5:4 - are 1 Thessalonians 5:9 - obtain 2 Timothy 2:10 - obtain Titus 3:5 - according Philemon 1:11 - unprofitable Hebrews 4:9 - people Hebrews 11:25 - the people

Cross-References

Psalms 46:4
A river brings joy to the city of our God, the sacred home of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the holy of the tabernacles of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river that brings joy to the city of God, the holy place where God Most High lives.

Psalms 46:4
The river's channels bring joy to the city of God, the special, holy dwelling place of the sovereign One.

Psalms 46:4
[There is] a river, the streams of which shall make glad the city of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, The holy place of the tents of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
The feersnesse of flood makith glad the citee of God; the hiyeste God hath halewid his tabernacle.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which in time were not a people,.... A "Loammi" being put upon them; see Hosea 1:9 to which the apostle here refers: God's elect, whether among Jews or Gentiles, were, from eternity, his chosen people, and his covenant people; and, as such, were given to Christ, and they became his people, and his care and charge; and he saved them by his obedience, sufferings, and death, and redeemed them to himself, a peculiar people: but then, before conversion, they are not a people formed by God for himself, and his praise; nor Christ's willing people, either to be saved by him, or to serve him; nor are they, nor can they be truly known by themselves, or others, to be the people of God: the Syriac version gives the true sense of the phrase, by rendering it "these who before were not" חשבון, "reckoned or accounted a people"; that is, by others:

but are now the people of God; being regenerated, called, and sanctified, they are avouched by God to be his people; they have the witness of the Spirit to their spirits, that they are the people of God; they can then claim their relation to God, and are known, acknowledged, and called the people of God, by others:

which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy; being called formerly, Loruhamah, Hosea 1:6 which passages the apostle has in view: before conversion there is mercy in God's heart towards his elect, and so there is in the covenant of grace, and which was shown in the provision of his Son, as a Saviour, in the mission of him, and redemption by him; but this is not manifested to them, until they are begotten again, according to abundant mercy, and then they obtain mercy; having in their regeneration an evident display of the mercy of God towards them, and an application of his pardoning grace and mercy, through the blood of his Son, unto them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which in time past were not a people - That is, who formerly were not regarded as the people of God. There is an allusion here to the passage in Hosea 2:23, “And I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.” It is, however, a mere allusion, such as one makes who uses the language of another to express his ideas, without meaning to say that both refer to the same subject. In Hosea, the passage refers evidently to the reception of one portion of the Israelites into favor after their rejection; in Peter, it refers mainly to those who had been Gentiles, and who had never been recognized as the people of God. The language of the prophet would exactly express his idea, and he therefore uses it without intending to say that this was its original application. See it explained in the notes at Romans 9:25. Compare the notes at Ephesians 2:11-12.

Which had not obtained mercy - That is, who had been living unpardoned, having no knowledge of the way by which sinners might be forgiven, and no evidence that your sins were forgiven. They were then in the condition of the whole pagan world, and they had not then been acquainted with the glorious method by which God forgives iniquity.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 10. Which in time past were not a people — This is a quotation from Hosea 1:9-10; Hosea 2:23, where the calling of the Gentiles, by the preaching of the Gospel, is foretold. From this it is evident, that the people to whom the apostle now addresses himself had been Gentiles, covered with ignorance and superstition, and now had obtained mercy by the preaching of the Gospel of Christ.