7 Consequently God sent me ahead of YOU in order to place a remnant*+ for YOU men in the earth and to keep YOU alive by a great escape.

20 As for YOU, YOU had evil in mind against me. God had it in mind for good for the purpose of acting as at this day to preserve many people alive.+

16 therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Here I am laying* as a foundation in Zion+ a stone,*+ a tried stone,+ the precious corner+ of a sure foundation.*+ No one exercising faith will get panicky.*+

42 Jesus said to them: “Did YOU never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone that the builders rejected+ is the one that has become the chief cornerstone.+ From Jehovah* this has come to be, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

4 Coming to him as to a living stone,+ rejected,+ it is true, by men,+ but chosen, precious, with God,+