19. Your condition then is no longer one of alienation, strangeness, subjection. You have received the citizenship of the saints, you are members of a household, the house of God;
20. you are, as it were, stones in a temple built up on a foundation of apostles and prophets, the chief “corner-stone”
21. of which is Christ Jesus, on which stone the whole building rises, and each block is fitted into its place, until a temple to the Lord be framed,
22. a holy building wherein as the spiritual habitation of God you yourselves find your place and nature with all the rest.