1 Peter 2:5 BSB — MannaFest

1 Peter 2:5

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.

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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.

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.

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Commentary

5 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book IV (202)

For David had been appointed a priest by God, although Saul persecuted him. For all the righteous possess the sacerdotal rank. And all the apostles of the Lord are priests, who do inherit here neither lands nor houses, but serve God and the altar continually. Of whom Moses also says in Deuteronomy, when blessing Levi, "Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not known thee; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, and he disinherited his own sons: he kept Thy commandments, and observed Thy covenant."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Are built up - In union with each other. A spiritual house - Being spiritual yourselves, and an habitation of God through the Spirit. An holy priesthood - Consecrated to God, and "holy as he is holy." To offer up - Your souls and bodies, with all your thoughts, words, and actions, as spiritual sacrifices to God.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Ye also, as lively stones - Greek, “living stones.” The word should have been so rendered. The word lively with us now has a different meaning from living, and denotes “active, quick, sprightly.” The Greek word is the same as that used in the previous verse, and rendered living. The meaning is, that the materials of which the temple here referred to was composed, were living materials throughout. The foundation is a living foundation, and all the superstructure is compassed of living materials.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

(1911)

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
αὐτοὶ	autoi	you yourselves	G846 →
ὡς	hōs	as	G5613 →
λίθοι	lithoi	stones	G3037 →
ζῶντες	zōntes	living	G2198 →
οἰκοδομεῖσθε	oikodomeisthe	are being built up	G3618 →
οἶκος	oikos	as a house	G3624 →
πνευματικὸς	pneumatikos	spiritual	G4152 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
ἱεράτευμα	hi'erateuma	a priesthood	G2406 →
ἅγιον	hagion	holy	G40 →
ἀνενέγκαι	anenegkai	to offer	G399 →
πνευματικὰς	pneumatikas	spiritual	G4152 →
θυσίας	thusias	sacrifices	G2378 →
εὐπροσδέκτους	euprosdektous	acceptable	G2144 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
θεῷ	theō	to God	G2316 →
διὰ	dia	through	G1223 →
Ἰησοῦ	Iēsou	Jesus	G2424 →
Χριστοῦ.	Christou	Christ.	G5547 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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.
leads to
- Revelation 1:6
  who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Exodus 19:5–6
  Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- Deuteronomy 7:6
  For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of…
- Revelation 5:10
  You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
- 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…
Through
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 6:19
  Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
- Ezekiel 36:27
  And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16
  What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and…

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 1 Peter

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 1 Peter