⁹ and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

¹⁹ Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,

²⁰ which way he did initiate for us -- new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh --

²¹ and a high priest over the house of God,

²² may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

²³ may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful `is' He who did promise),

²⁰ with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh -- in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

¹⁹ Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

²⁰ for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

¹⁹ Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

²⁰ being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-`stone',

²¹ in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,

²² in whom also ye are builded together, for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

⁴ for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build `is' God,

⁵ and Moses indeed `was' stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,

⁶ and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

⁷ Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear --

⁵ and Moses indeed `was' stedfast in all his house, as an attendant, for a testimony of those things that were to be spoken,

⁶ and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

⁷ Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear --

¹⁶ and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,

¹⁶ have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

¹⁷ if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,