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# You also are ... being built up to be a spiritual house
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Just as people used stones to build the temple in the Old Testament, believers are the materials that God is using to build a house in which he will live. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# You also are like living stones
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Peter compares his readers to stones that are alive. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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# that are being built up to be a spiritual house
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This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "that God is building into a spiritual house" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# a holy priesthood that offers the spiritual sacrifices
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Here the position of priesthood stands for the priests who fulfill its duties. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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