precious
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4Since then, you have become honorable in my eyes, and glorious. I have loved you, and I will present men on behalf of you, and people on behalf of your life.
1Therefore, set aside all malice and all deceitfulness, as well as falseness and envy and every detraction. 2Like newborn infants, desire the milk of reasonableness without guile, so that by this you may increase unto salvation, 3if it is true that you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. 4And approaching him as if he were a living stone, rejected by men, certainly, but elect and honored by God, 5be also yourselves like living stones, built upon him, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, so as to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6Because of this, Scripture asserts: “Behold, I am setting in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious. And whoever will have believed in him will not be confounded.”
19Because of this, thus says the Lord: “If you will be converted, I will convert you. And you will stand before my face. And you will separate what is precious from what is vile. You will be my mouthpiece. They will be converted to you, but you will not be converted to them.
6Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his holy ones.
15She is more precious than all riches, and all that can be desired cannot prevail in comparison to her.
15There is gold, and there are a multitude of jewels. But lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.
3Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb.
8But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,
4Through Christ, he has given us the greatest and most precious promises, so that by these things you may become sharers in the Divine Nature, fleeing from the corruption of that desire which is in the world.
19but it was with the precious blood of Christ, an immaculate and undefiled lamb,
4Instead, you should be a hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptibility of a quiet and meek spirit, rich in the sight of God.