⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

¹⁹ So then, my brothers, being able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus,

²⁰ By the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

²¹ And having a great priest over the house of God,

²² Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

²³ Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:

²⁰ I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

¹⁹ Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

²⁰ For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

¹⁹ So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,

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.

²³ Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

⁴ For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.

⁵ And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;

⁶ But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

⁷ And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

⁵ And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;

⁶ But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

⁷ And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

¹⁶ And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

¹⁶ Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

¹⁷ If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

¹⁸ Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.