• Malachi 3:17
  "They shall be Mine," says the LORD of hosts,
  "On the day that I make them My jewels.
  And I will spare them
  As a man spares his own son who serves him."
  
   
• 1 Peter 2:4
  Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,
   

Related Scriptures

• 1 Kings 5:17-18
  And the king commanded them to quarry large stones, costly stones, and hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the temple. So Solomon’s builders, Hiram’s builders, and the Gebalites quarried them; and they prepared timber and stones to build the temple.
   
• 1 Peter 2:5
  you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.