1 Peter 2:5

Fellowship and the church Praise and worship Identity and self-worth

³ now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

⁴ As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁶ For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

⁷ To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
KJV: Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
WEB: You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
ASV: ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
DARBY: yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
BLB: you yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

ÅB: og bli også dere bygget opp som levende steiner til et åndelig hus, et hellig presteskap til å frembære åndelige offer, som tekkes Gud ved Jesus Kristus.
OTB: og bli selv, som levende steiner, oppbygd til et åndelig hus, til et hellig presteskap, for å bære fram åndelige offer, som er Gud til behag ved Jesus Kristus.
B1930: og bli også I opbygget som levende stener til et åndelig hus, et hellig presteskap til å frembære åndelige offer, som tekkes Gud ved Jesus Kristus.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ephesians 2:20–22
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
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1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
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1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
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Revelation 5:10
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
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1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
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Isaiah 61:6
But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.
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Hebrews 13:15–16
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
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Hebrews 3:6
But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
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