LEB(i)
5 And you yourselves, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6 For it stands in scripture,
"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame."* 7 Therefore the honor is for you who believe, but for those who refuse to believe,
"The stone that the builders rejected, this one has become ⌊the cornerstone⌋*," 8 and
"A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,"*
who stumble because they* disobey the word to which also they were consigned. 9 But you are a chosen race,* a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,
"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame."* 7 Therefore the honor is for you who believe, but for those who refuse to believe,
"The stone that the builders rejected, this one has become ⌊the cornerstone⌋*," 8 and
"A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense,"*
who stumble because they* disobey the word to which also they were consigned. 9 But you are a chosen race,* a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,