living stones
Americannoun
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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
And be ye also as living stones built up into a spiritual house, and a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
From The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained by E. H. (Ezra Hall) Gillett
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
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
Through their mediation these living stones have some message for our heart, something at once alien and intimate, which neither the stars nor the flowers of the field ever told to our forefathers.
From Underground Man by Gabriel Tarde
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