4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Yeshua the Messiah.
6 Because it is contained in Scripture,“Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious:He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
7 For you who believe therefore is the honour, but for those who are disobedient,“The stone which the builders rejected,has become the chief cornerstone,”
8 and,“a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence.”For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
10 who in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.