²⁰ All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.

¹⁹ All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.

⁹ And fifty shekels weight of gold was used for the nails. He had all the higher rooms plated with gold.

⁸ And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

¹¹ The words of the wise are pointed, and sayings grouped together are like nails fixed with a hammer; they are given by one guide.

²³ And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.

²⁰ Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled up, and whose cords will never be broken.

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.

¹⁹ And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.