17 Bible Verses about Royal Priesthood

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

a stone they stumble over and a rock they trip on." They keep on stumbling because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

but you are to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation to me.' These are the words you are to declare to the Israelis."

you, too, as living stones, are building yourselves up into a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, so that you may offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus, the Messiah.

and has made us a kingdom, priests for his God and Father, be glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

because you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD chose to make you his precious possession from among all the nations of the earth."

But as for you, you will be called priests of the LORD, and you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of the nations, and you will boast about their riches.

because you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God chose you to be his people, his treasured possession from all the nations on the face of the earth."

You will be a crown of splendor in the LORD's hand, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

nor will the Levitical priests be without a man offering up burnt offerings, bringing in grain offerings, and offering sacrifices continuously before me.'"

Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood for on this basis the people received the Law what further need would there be to speak of appointing another kind of priest according to the order of Melchizedek, not one according to the order of Aaron?

And now if you carefully obey me and keep my covenant, you are to be my special possession out of all the nations, because the whole earth belongs to me,

How was it that he went into the House of God during the lifetime of Abiathar the high priest and ate the Bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some of it to his companions?"

The LORD took an oath and will never recant: "You are a priest forever, after the manner of Melchizedek."

He gave himself for us to set us free from every wrong and to cleanse us so that we could be his special people who are enthusiastic about doing good deeds.