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Ye also are builded together (kai humeis sunoikodomeisthe). Ye Gentiles also. Present passive indicative (continuous process) of common old verb sunoikodomeō, to build together with others or out of varied materials as here. Only here in N.T. In 1Pe 2:5 Peter uses oikodomeisthe for the same process.
For a habitation (eis katoikētērion). Late word (lxx), in N.T. only here and Rev 18:2. From katoikeō, to dwell, as Eph 3:17. Possibly each of us is meant here to be the “habitation of God in the Spirit” and all together growing (auxei) “into a holy temple in the Lord,” a noble conception of the brotherhood in Christ.