1 Peter 2:5

A Living Stone, A Chosen People

⁴ to whom ye come as unto a living stone, disallowed of men, but chosen of God and precious: ⁵ and ye, as living stones, are made a spiritual house, and a holy priesthood, for to offer up spiritual sacrifice, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. ⁶ Wherefore it is contained in the scripture, "Behold, I put in Zion a head cornerstone, elect and precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be ashamed."

Chosen of God

Christ Jesus

Jesus Christ

Living Stone

Living Stones

Offer Up Spiritual Sacrifices

Pleasing to God

Spiritual Sacrifices

O God

Christ

Jesus

Messiah

Philippians 4:18

I received all, and have plenty. I was even filled after that I have received of Epaphroditus, that which came from you, an odor that smelleth sweet, a sacrifice accepted and pleasant to God.

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people, that ye should show the virtues of him that called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,

Isaiah 61:6

But ye shall be named the priests of the LORD, and men shall call you the servants of our God. Ye shall enjoy the goods of the Gentiles and triumph in their substance.

Isaiah 66:21

And I shall take out certain of them for to be priests and Levites, sayeth the LORD.

Malachi 1:11

For from the rising up of the sun unto the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles. Yea, in every place shall there sacrifice be done, and a clean meat offering offered up unto my name: for my name is great among the Heathen, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

Romans 12:1

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercifulness of God, that ye make your bodies a living sacrifice: holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable serving of God.

1 Corinthians 3:9

We are God's laborers: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

Ephesians 2:20-22

and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets - Jesus Christ being the head cornerstone -

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ, as a son, hath rule over the house, whose house we are, so that we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of that hope, unto the end.

Revelation 1:6

and made us kings and priests unto God his father, be glory, and dominion for evermore amen.

Revelation 5:10

and hast made us unto our God, kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth."

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection. For on such shall the second death have no power, for they shall be the priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Psalm 50:14

Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the most highest.

Psalm 50:23

Whoso offereth me thanks and praise, he honoureth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation right, will I show the salvation of God."

Psalm 141:2

Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense, and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you and turn unto the Lord. And say unto him, "Remit all wickedness and given things, and we will pay thee openly

John 4:22-24

Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship. For salvation cometh of the Jews.

Romans 15:16

for this purpose: that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ among the gentiles, and should minister the glad tidings of God, that the gentiles might be an acceptable offering, sanctified by the holy ghost.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Are ye not aware that ye are the temple of God, and how that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 6:19

Either, know ye not how that your bodies are the temple of the holy ghost, which is in you, whom he have of God, and how that ye are not your own?

2 Corinthians 6:16

How agreeth the temple of God with images? And ye are the temple of the living God, as said God, "I will dwell among them, and walk among them, and will be their God: and they shall be my people."

Philippians 1:11

filled with the fruits of righteousness, which fruits come by Jesus Christ unto the glory and laud of God.

Philippians 2:17

Yea, and though I be offered up upon the offering and sacrifice of your faith: I rejoice and rejoice with you all.

Colossians 3:17

And all things, whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father by him.

1 Timothy 3:15

But and if I tarry long, that then thou mayst yet have knowledge how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth.

Hebrews 13:15-16

For by him offer we the sacrifice of praise always to God: that is to say, the fruit of those lips, which confess his name.

1 Peter 4:11

If any man speak, let him talk as though he spake the words of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God ministereth unto him. That God, in all things, may be glorified through Jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion forever and while the world standeth. Amen.

Revelation 3:12

Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out. And I will write upon him, the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God and I will write upon him my new name.