living stones
Americannoun
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While Christ is the head of the Church, the tried corner-stone elect and precious, yet his members are the living stones, and have built up a spiritual house unto the Lord.
From Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. by Duncan McNeill Young
Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ....
From The Harp of God by J. F. (Joseph Franklin) Rutherford
We are God’s house of living stones, Built for the Spirit’s indwelling.
From Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark by J. C. (Jens Christian) Aaberg
The Sanballats and Tobiahs of discouragement and shame may deride the work and embarrass the labourers; but one by one the living stones, polished after the similitude of a palace, are incorporated into it.
From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by Knowles King
God's Temple then was composed of living stones, wherein a spiritual priesthood offered up spiritual sacrifices.
From The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson
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