1 Peter 2:5-9 and you yourselves, as living stones, are built a spiritual house - a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices, well-received to Elohim through Yah Shua Messiah.

ECB⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ and you yourselves, as living stones, are built a spiritual house - a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices, well-received to Elohim through Yah Shua Messiah. ⁶ So it is also contained in the scripture, Behold, I place in Siyon a chief corner stone, select, honorable: and whoever trusts on him never no way shames. ^{Isaiah 28:16} ⁷ So to you who trust, he is precious: but to them who distrust, the stone the builders disapproved this one became the head of the corner, ⁸ and a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal to them who stumble at the word - who distrust: to which also they were set. ⁹ But you are a select genos, a sovereign priesthood, a holy goyim, a peculiar acquisition to himself; to evangelize the exultation of him who called you from darkness into his marvellous light: