Cornerstone

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

General scriptures concerning

• Job 38:6 On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

See Stone

Figurative

• Psalm 144:12 Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Of Christ

• Psalm 118:22 The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• Isaiah 28:16 So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.
• Matthew 21:42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
• Mark 12:10 Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• Luke 20:17 But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?
• Acts 4:11 This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’
• 1 Corinthians 3:11 For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
• Ephesians 2:20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
• 1 Peter 2:6 For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”