"Like newborn infants, long for the spiritually-spoken guileless milk, in order that in it you might be grown up into salvation, if you have tasted that the Lord is kind, toward whom, coming near—as a living stone, on the one hand having been rejected by men, but on the other hand chosen and precious in the presence of God, also yourselves, as living stones—you are a spiritual house being built up into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." 1 Peter 2:2-5