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.

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

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom ye have of God, and that ye are not your own?

And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone,

but Christ as a son over his own house, which house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the glorious hope firmly until the end.

He that overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God which is the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from and with my God, and I will write upon him my new name.

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But ye are the chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, an acquired people, that ye should show forth the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD; men shall call you the Ministers of our God; ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and with their glory ye shall be lifted up.

And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.

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

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

Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection; on such the second death has no authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years.

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Sacrifice praise unto God and pay thy vows unto the most High

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

Take with you words, and be converted unto the LORD; say unto him, Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, so will we render the calves of our lips.

For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense is offered unto my name, and a clean offering; for my name is great among the Gentiles, said the LORD of the hosts.

Ye worship what ye know not; we worship what we know, for saving health is of the Jews.

Therefore, I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies in living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing unto God, which is your rational worship.

And even if I am poured out as an offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.

But I have all and abound; I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

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

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He also made the altar of incense of cedar wood: the length of it was a cubit and the breadth of it a cubit; it was square; and two cubits was the height of it; its horns were of the same piece.

And the priest shall take some of the blood of the expiation for the guilt, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of the one that is to be purified and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot.

And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it of your own free will.

And above were also costly stones, hewed according to their measurements, and work of cedar.

Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures for ever.

And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.

neither shall the priests the Levites lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings and to kindle grain offerings and to do sacrifice continually.

But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.