¹⁹ So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household, ²⁰ built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,^(A) with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. ²¹ In him the whole building, being put together,^(B) grows into a holy temple in the Lord.^{(C) 22} In him you are also being built together^(D) for God’s dwelling^(E) in the Spirit.

⁴ As you come to him, a living stone—rejected by people but chosen and honored by^[a] God— ⁵ you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood^[b] to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God^(A) through Jesus Christ.

¹⁶ Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple^(A) and that the Spirit of God lives in you?^(B)

¹⁵ But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household,^(A) which is the church of the living God,^(B) the pillar and foundation of the truth.^(C)

³⁸ The one who believes in me,^(A) as the Scripture^(B) has said, will have streams of living water^(C) flow^(D) from deep within him.”