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.

¹⁰ For he was looking forward to ^(A)the city that has ^(B)foundations, ^(C)whose designer and builder is God.

¹⁵ if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth. ¹⁶ Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness:

³ Facing ^(A)the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing ^(B)the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was ^(C)gallery^[a] against gallery in three stories.

^16 (A)the thresholds and ^(B)the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered),

⁸ Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that ^(A)your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants, ⁹ to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.

^9 (A)So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.