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you autos also kai, like hōs living zaō stones lithos, are being built up oikodomeō as a spiritual pneumatikos house oikos, to be eis a holy hagios priesthood hierateuma to offer anapherō spiritual pneumatikos sacrifices thusia acceptable euprosdektos to ho God theos through dia Jesus Iēsous Christ Christos. For dioti it says periechō in en scripture graphē, “ Behold idou, I lay tithēmi in en Zion Siōn a stone lithos, a cornerstone akrogōniaios chosen eklektos and precious entimos, and kai the ho one who believes pisteuō in epi him autos will never ou mē be put to shame kataischunō.” Therefore oun the ho great value timē is to you hymeis who ho believe pisteuō; but de for those who do not believe apisteō, “The stone lithos that hos the ho builders oikodomeō rejected apodokimazō, this very one houtos has become ginomai the cornerstone kephalē gōnia,”

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you also, like living stones, are being built(A) into a spiritual house[a](B) to be a holy priesthood,(C) offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.(D) For in Scripture it says:

“See, I lay a stone in Zion,
    a chosen and precious cornerstone,(E)
and the one who trusts in him
    will never be put to shame.”[b](F)

Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,(G)

“The stone the builders rejected(H)
    has become the cornerstone,”[c](I)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:5 Or into a temple of the Spirit
  2. 1 Peter 2:6 Isaiah 28:16
  3. 1 Peter 2:7 Psalm 118:22