⁵ you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood^[a] to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God^(A) through Jesus Christ.

⁹ But you are a chosen race,^[a][b](A) a royal priesthood,^[c](B) a holy nation,^[d](C) a people for his possession,^[e](D) so that you may proclaim the praises^[f][g](E) of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.^(F)

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

¹⁷ If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him;^(A) for God’s temple is holy,^(B) and that is what you are.

⁹ For we are God’s coworkers.^[a] You are God’s field, God’s building.^(A)

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.

The Great Tribulation

¹⁵ “So when you see the abomination of desolation,^[a] spoken of by the prophet Daniel,^(A) standing in the holy place”^(B) (let the reader understand),

The Great Tribulation

¹⁴ “When you see the abomination of desolation^[a](A) standing where it should not be” (let the reader understand), “then those in Judea^(B) must flee to the mountains.

³ Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy^[a] comes first and the man of lawlessness^[b] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.