1B Through the Lord's speaking in John 1:42 and Matthew 16:18, Peter received the revelation that both Christ and the believers are living stones for God's building and eventually realized that God's goal is to have a spiritual house built up with living stones (1 Pet. 2:4-8):
21 彼前二章四节说到基督是活石:
21 First Peter 2:4 speaks of Christ as a living stone:
3a 活石不仅有生命,也能在生命里长大;这活石就是为着神的建造的基督。
3a A living stone is one that not only possesses life but also grows in life; this is Christ for God's building.
4b 为着作我们的生命,基督是种子;为着神的建造,祂是石头。
4b As life to us, Christ is the seed; for God's building, He is the stone.
6d In this way He makes us living stones, transformed with His divine nature, so that we may be built up together with others as a spiritual house upon Him as both the foundation and the cornerstone (1 Cor. 3:10; Eph. 2:20).
9b We were created of clay (Rom. 9:21), but at regeneration we received the seed of life, which by its growth in us transforms us into living stones (1 Pet. 2:2, 5).