the whole building, which is being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom also you are being built together into a place where God dwells by the Spirit. This expository section has three paragraphs, two conclusions with an intervening grounds for them (2:11–13; 2:14–18; 2:19–22; Johnson). The first conclusion presents their transformation, heavily weighted toward a description of their previously alienated state (2:11–12, 13), while the second emphasizes the subsequent