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1 Peter 2:3-5
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1 Peter 2:3-5
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3 (A)for you have tasted that the Lord is good.[a] 4 Come to him, a living stone,[b] rejected by human beings but chosen and precious in the sight of God,(B) 5 and, like living stones, let yourselves be built[c] into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.(C)
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- 2:3 Tasted that the Lord is good: cf. Ps 34:9.
- 2:4–8 Christ is the cornerstone (cf. Is 28:16) that is the foundation of the spiritual edifice of the Christian community (1 Pt 2:5). To unbelievers, Christ is an obstacle and a stumbling block on which they are destined to fall (1 Pt 2:8); cf. Rom 11:11.
- 2:5 Let yourselves be built: the form of the Greek word could also be indicative passive, “you are being built” (cf. 1 Pt 2:9).
1 Peter 2:3-5
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1 Peter 2:3-5
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3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.(A)
The Living Stone and a Chosen People
4 As you come to him, the living Stone(B)—rejected by humans but chosen by God(C) and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built(D) into a spiritual house[a](E) to be a holy priesthood,(F) offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.(G)
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- 1 Peter 2:5 Or into a temple of the Spirit
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