1. “Having the glory of God, its radiance like a rarest jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.”

2. “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.”

3. “There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.”

4. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”