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Like living stones, let yourselves be assembled into a spiritual house, a holy order of priests who offer up spiritual sacrifices that will be acceptable to God through Jesus the Anointed. For it says in the words of the prophet Isaiah,

See here—I am laying in Zion a stone,
    a cornerstone, chosen and precious;
Whoever depends upon Him will never be disgraced.[a]

To you who believe and depend on Him, He is precious; but to you who don’t, remember the words of the psalmist:

The stone that the builders rejected
    has been laid as the cornerstone—the very stone that holds together the entire foundation,[b]

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