1 Peter 2:5

World English Bible (2000)

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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  • Eph 2:20-22 : 20 being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; 21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • 1 Cor 3:9 : 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
  • Isa 61:6 : 6 But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men will call you the ministers of our God: you will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their glory.
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
  • Heb 3:6 : 6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
  • Rev 1:6 : 6 and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • Rev 5:10 : 10 and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth."
  • Rev 20:6 : 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one 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 proclaim allegiance to his name. 16 But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
  • 1 Cor 3:16 : 16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?
  • 1 Cor 6:19 : 19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you 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 will be my people."
  • Ps 141:2 : 2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
  • Isa 66:21 : 21 Of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites," says Yahweh.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, 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 wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
  • Col 3:17 : 17 Whatever you do, 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 who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • Rom 15:16 : 16 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
  • Ps 50:14 : 14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
  • Ps 50:23 : 23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
  • Hos 14:2 : 2 Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
  • Mal 1:11 : 11 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • John 4:22-24 : 22 You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
  • Phil 1:11 : 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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  • 1 Pet 2:6-11
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    6 Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed."

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    9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

    10 who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

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    19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

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    21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

    22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

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    11 He is 'the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.'

  • Heb 8:2-3
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    2 a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

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    1 For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

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    25 For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

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    16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

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    1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

  • 1 Pet 1:18-19
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    18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

    19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

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    9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

    10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

    11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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    1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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    22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.

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    2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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    15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

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    16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you 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 will be my people."

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    2 David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build the house of God.

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    27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

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    10 named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

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    16 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

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    2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

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    10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

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    20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

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    18 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?