The Chosen Stone and His Chosen People^(A)

⁴ Coming to Him as to a living stone, ^(B)rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, 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.

¹⁰ for he waited for ^(A)the city which has foundations, ^(B)whose builder and maker is God.

¹⁵ but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ^[a]ground of the truth. ¹⁶ And without controversy great is the ^[b]mystery of godliness:

³ Opposite the inner court of twenty cubits, and opposite the ^(A)pavement of the outer court, was ^(B)gallery against gallery in three stories.

¹⁶ their doorposts and ^(A)the beveled window frames. And the galleries all around their three stories opposite the threshold were paneled with ^(B)wood from the ground to the windows—the windows were covered—

^9 (A)So he built the ^[a]temple and finished it, and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar.