If she is a wall, let us build upon her silver bulwarks; and if she is a door, let us carve for her cedar panels.

And send me from Lebanon cedar wood, and wood of juniper, and pine; for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting timber in Lebanon: and behold, your servants shall go with my servants,

to prepare timber for me in abundance; for the house which I am building [must be] great and glorious.

The righteous shall flourish as a palmtree; he shall be increased as the cedar in Lebanon.

but if I am delayed, [I write] so that you may know how it is necessary to conduct oneself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.

And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among [the] Gentiles, believed on in the world, [and] was received up in glory.

for he waited for the city having foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Coming to Him as to a living stone, having been rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,

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

Your head upon you is as Carmel, and the curls of your hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries.

And the windows were latticed, [giving] light round about to the three [stories,] so as to look through. And the house and the parts adjoining were planked round about, and [so was] the floor, and from the floor up to the windows, and the window [shutters] folded back in three parts for one to look through.

ornamented accordingly as the gates of the inner court, and arranged accordingly as the peristyles of the outer court, [with three] porches fronting one another.