1 Peter 2:5

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Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

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Know ye not that ye are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own,

And what mutual agreement has a temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God, just as God said, I will dwell in them, and will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they will be a people to me.

Which was built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner,

but Christ as a Son over his house, whose house we are, if only we keep in possession our confidence and pride of hope, firm until the end.

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will, no, not go out any more. And I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem (it comes down out of the

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But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

But ye shall be named the priests of LORD. Men shall call you the ministers of our God. Ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory ye shall boast yourselves.

And of them also I will take for priests [and] for Levites, says LORD.

and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

And thou made them kings and priests to our God, and they will reign over the earth.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. On these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will reign with him a thousand years.

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Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay thy vows to the Most High.

Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Take with you words, and return to LORD. Say to him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good. So we will render [as] bullocks [the offering of] our lips.

For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name [is] great among the Gentiles. And in every place incense [is] offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name [is] great among the Gentiles, says LORD

Ye worship what ye do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your reasonable service.

Yet even if I am poured out a libation upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

But I receive all things, and I abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an aroma of fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice well-pleasing to God.

Through him therefore, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, fruit of lips acknowledging his name.

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And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit was the length of it, and a cubit the breadth of it, foursquare, and two cubits was the height of it. The horns of it were of one piece with it.

And the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot

And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to LORD, ye shall sacrifice it that ye may be accepted.

And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.

Let the house of Aaron now say that his loving kindness [is] forever.

And of them also I will take for priests [and] for Levites, says LORD.

neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

But I say to you, that a greater than the temple is here.