1 Peter 2:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ αὐτοὶ, ὡς λίθοι ζῶντες, οἰκοδομεῖσθε οἶκος πνευματικὸς, ἱεράτευμα ἅγιον, ἀνενέγκαι πνευματικὰς θυσίας, εὐπροσδέκτους τῷ Θεῷ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.

Transliteration

And autoi, as lithoi zōntes, oikodomeisthe oikos pneumatikos, hierateuma hagion, anenegkai pneumatikas thysias, euprosdektous tō Theō dia Iēsou Christou.

Grammar Details

• *autoi*: pronoun, masculine plural nominative - yourselves
• *lithoi*: noun, masculine plural nominative - stones
• *zōntes*: present active participle, masculine plural nominative - living
• *oikodomeisthe*: present passive indicative, 2nd person plural - you are being built up
• *oikos*: noun, masculine singular nominative - house
• *pneumatikos*: adjective, masculine singular nominative - spiritual
• *hierateuma*: noun, neuter singular nominative - priesthood
• *hagion*: adjective, neuter singular nominative - holy
• *anenegkai*: aorist active infinitive - to offer up
• *pneumatikas*: adjective, feminine plural accusative - spiritual
• *thysias*: noun, feminine plural accusative - sacrifices
• *euprosdektous*: adjective, feminine plural accusative - acceptable/well-pleasing
• *tō Theō*: noun, masculine singular dative - to God
• *dia*: preposition + genitive - through
• *Iēsou Christou*: noun, masculine singular genitive - Jesus Christ

Word Meanings

• *oikodomeisthe*: you are being built up/being constructed/being edified
• *oikos*: house/household/dwelling
• *pneumatikos*: spiritual/of the Spirit
• *hierateuma*: priesthood/body of priests
• *hagion*: holy/set apart/sacred
• *anenegkai*: to offer up/to bring up
• *thysias*: sacrifices/offerings
• *euprosdektous*: acceptable/well-pleasing/welcome

Referenced Verses

• Eph 2:20-22 : 20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; 21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a {G1519} people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.
• Isa 61:6 : 6 But ye shall be named the priests of Jehovah; men shall call you the ministers of our God: ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
• Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.
• Heb 3:6 : 6 but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.
• Rev 1:6 : 6 and he made us [to be] a kingdom, {G2532} [to be] priests unto his God and Father; to him [be] the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
• Rev 5:10 : 10 and madest them [to be] unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon earth.
• Rev 20:6 : 6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
• Heb 13:15-16 : 15 Through him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
• 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Ps 141:2 : 2 Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
• Phil 2:17 : 17 Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:
• Isa 66:21 : 21 And of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites, saith Jehovah.
• Rom 12:1 : 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your spiritual service.
• 1 Tim 3:15 : 15 but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
• Col 3:17 : 17 And {G3748} whatsoever ye do, {G4160} in word or in deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
• Rev 3:12 : 12 He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no {G3361} more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.
• 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 if any man speaketh, [speaking] as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, [ministering] as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
• Rom 15:16 : 16 that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
• Ps 50:14 : 14 Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay thy vows unto the Most High:
• Ps 50:23 : 23 Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way [aright] Will I show the salvation of God.
• Hos 14:2 : 2 Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will we render [as] bullocks [the offering of] our lips.
• Mal 1:11 : 11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles, saith Jehovah of hosts.
• John 4:22-24 : 22 Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
• Phil 1:11 : 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.