For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will...

“As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are...

“...since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for “All...