1 Peter 2:5-9 come and, like living stones yourselves, be built into a spiritual house, to form a consecrated priesthood for the offering of those spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Moffatt⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ come and, like living stones yourselves, be built into a spiritual house, to form a consecrated priesthood for the offering of those spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ For thus it stands in the scripture: Here I lay a Stone in Sion, a choice, a precious cornerstone: he who believes in him will never be disappointed. ⁷ Now you believe, you hold him 'precious,' but as for the unbelieving — the very stone the builders rejected is now the cornerstone, ⁸ a stone over which men stumble and a rock of offence; they stumble over it in their disobedience to God's word. Such is their appointed doom. ⁹ But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light —