¹¹ Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

²⁰ Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

²¹ In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

²² In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.

⁵ You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.