1 PETER 2.5

and you yourselves are built up as living stones [into] a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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ISAIAH 62.6-7

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, || All the day and all the night, || Continually, they are not silent.” O you remembering YHWH, do not keep silence for yourselves, And do not give silence to Him, || Until He establishes, and until He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

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JOHN 15.2

every branch not bearing fruit in Me, He takes it away, and everyone bearing fruit, He cleanses by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

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JAMES 1.18

having willed [it], He begot us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

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ROMANS 8.6

for the mind of the flesh [is] death, and the mind of the Spirit—life and peace;