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you also, as livingstones, are being built up as a spiritualhouse for a holypriesthood, to offer up spiritualsacrificesacceptable to GodthroughJesusChrist.
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For this is contained in Scripture: "BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHOICESTONE, A PRECIOUSCORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."
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Thispreciousvalue, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, "THE STONEWHICH THE BUILDERSREJECTED, THISBECAME THE VERYCORNER stone,"
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and, "A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE "; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were alsoappointed.