⁵ you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be cohanim set apart for God to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to him through Yeshua the Messiah.

⁹ But you are a chosen people,^[a] the King’s cohanim,^[b] a holy nation,^[c] a people for God to possess!^[d] Why? In order for you to declare the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.