¹⁷ But he ^(A)looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written:

⁴² Jesus said to them, ^(A)“Have you never read in the Scriptures:

^11 (A)This Jesus^[a] is the stone that was ^(B)rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.^[b]

⁴ As you come to him, a living stone ^(A)rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, ^5 (B)you yourselves like living stones are being built up as ^(C)a spiritual house, to be ^(D)a holy priesthood, ^(E)to offer spiritual sacrifices ^(F)acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ For it stands in Scripture:

⁷ So the honor is for you who ^(I)believe, but for those who ^(J)do not believe,

⁸ and

They stumble because they disobey the word, ^(M)as they were destined to do.

^20 (A)built on the foundation of the ^(B)apostles and prophets, ^(C)Christ Jesus himself being ^(D)the cornerstone, ^21 (E)in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into ^(F)a holy temple in the Lord. ²² In him ^(G)you also are being built together ^(H)into a dwelling place for God by^[a] the Spirit.

^10 (A)Have you not read ^(B)this Scripture:

⁷ Who are you, ^(A)O great mountain? Before ^(B)Zerubbabel ^(C)you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward ^(D)the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”