1 Peter 2:5

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Summary

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.

Also

An holy

Spiritual

Hebrews 13:15

General references

Matthew 12:6

Bible References

Also

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

or what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, "I will inhabit in them, and walk about in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be for me a people."

built up on the foundation of apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

but Christ as a son over his own house: whose house are we, if we hold firmly the confidence and glorying of hope stedfast unto the end.

He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall never more go out from thence: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

An holy

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired by purchase; that ye should publish abroad the excellencies of him, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

and made us kings and priests to his God and Father; to him be glory and might for ever and ever. Amen.

and hast made us for our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection; over these the second death hath no dominion: but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years.

Spiritual

Ye worship ye know not what: we worship what we do know: for salvation cometh from the Jews.

I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Yea, and should I become the victim, in the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

But I have now all things, and abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your bounty, an odour of sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

By him therefore let us offer a sacrifice of praise perpetually to God, that is the fruit of our lips confessing his name.

General references

Now I tell you, That one greater than the temple is here.