¹⁸ For ^(A)through Him we both have access ^(B)by one Spirit to the Father.

Christ Our Cornerstone

¹⁹ Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, ²⁰ having been ^(C)built ^(D)on the foundation of the ^(E)apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being ^(F)the chief cornerstone, ²¹ in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into ^(G)a holy temple in the Lord, ^22 (H)in whom you also are being built together for a ^(I)dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

⁵ you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,

⁷ Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who ^[a]are disobedient,

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^(D)They stumble, being disobedient to the word, ^(E)to which they also were appointed.

⁹ But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of ^(F)darkness into His marvelous light;