27 Bible Verses about Priests, Tasks In Nt Times

Then Jupiter's priest, which dwelt before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gate, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

And every priest is ready daily ministering, and often times offereth one manner of offering, which can never take away sins:

How much more shall the blood of Christ - which through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to God - purge your consciences from dead works, for to serve the living God?

By the which will we are sanctified, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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.

To do good, and to distribute, forget not: for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

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.

according to the custom of the priest's office his lot was to burn incense. And he went into the temple of the Lord,

And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet cense every morning when he dresseth the lamps: and likewise at even when he setteth up the lamps he shall burn cense perpetually before the LORD throughout your generations.

And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and twenty four elders fell down before the lamb, having harps and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints,

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.

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

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

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.

When Herod the king had heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And he gathered all the chief Priests and Scribes of the people, and asked of them where Christ should be born. And they said unto him, "In Bethlehem in Jewry; for thus it is written by the Prophet,read more.
'And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Jewry, art not the least concerning the Princes of Judah: For out of thee shall come the captain, that shall govern my people Israel.'"

And this is the record of John: When the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem, to ask him, "What art thou?"

Brethren as pertaining to the gospel which I preached unto you, which ye have also accepted, and in the which ye continue; by the which also ye are saved - I do you to know, after what manner I preached unto you - if ye keep it, except ye have believed in vain. For first of all, I delivered unto you that which I received: how that Christ died for our sins, agreeing to the scriptures,read more.
and that he was buried, and that he arose again the third day according to the scriptures, and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve.

See thou have the example of the wholesome words which thou heardest of me, in faith and love which is in Jesus Christ. That good thing which was committed to thy keeping, keep in the holy ghost which dwelleth in us.

And what things thou hast heard of me, many bearing witness, the same deliver to faithful men, which are apt to teach others.

And Jesus said unto him, "See thou tell no man; but go, and show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, to be offered in witness to them."

and said unto him, "See that thou say nothing to any man, but get thee hence and show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimonial unto them."

And he warned him, that he should tell no man: but that he should go and show himself to the priest, and offer for his cleansing according as Moses commandment was, for a witness unto them.

"When there appeareth a rising in any man's flesh - either a scab or a glistering white - as though the plague of leprosy were in the skin of his flesh, then let him be brought unto Aaron the priest or unto one of his sons, the priests. And let the priest look on the sore that is in the skin of his flesh. If the hair in the sore be turned unto white, and the sore also seem to be lower than the skin of his flesh, then it is surely a leprosy, and let the priest look on him and make him unclean.

"This is the law of a leper when he shall be cleansed: He shall be brought unto the priest,

When he saw them, he said unto them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And it chanced, as they went, they were cleansed.

Then Jesus said unto them again, "Peace be with you. As my father sent me, even so send I you." And when he had said that, he breathed on them, and said unto them, "Receive the holy ghost. Whosoever's sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them: And whosoever's sins ye retain, they are retained."

Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.