1 Peter 2:5

A Living Stone, A Chosen People

⁴ To whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed by men but approved by God, elect, precious, ⁵ do you also yourselves be built up living stones, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices well pleasing to God through Jesus Christ, ⁶ for it is said in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.

Chosen of God

Christ Jesus

Jesus Christ

Living Stone

Living Stones

Offer Up Spiritual Sacrifices

Pleasing to God

Spiritual Sacrifices

O God

Christ

Jesus

Messiah

Philippians 4:18

But I have all things and abound, I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a perfume of good odor, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;

Romans 12:1

I EXHORT you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice; holy, well pleasing to God, your reasonable service;

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God's co-laborers; you are God's field, God's building.

Ephesians 2:20-22

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

Hebrews 3:6

but Christ as a son over his house, whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope.

Revelation 1:6

and made us a kingdom, priests to God even his Father, to him be the glory and the power forever; amen.

Revelation 5:10

and hast made them a kingdom and priests, and they shall reign on the earth.

Revelation 20:6

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

John 4:22-24

You worship what you know not; we worship what we know; for salvation is of the Jews.

Romans 15:16

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the nations, administering as a priest the gospel of God, that the offering of the nations may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:16

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

1 Corinthians 6:19

Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own?

2 Corinthians 6:16

and what agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; as God said, I will dwell in them, and I will walk in them, and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.

Philippians 1:11

filled with the fruit of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 2:17

But if I am even poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate you all;

Colossians 3:17

and whatever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the God [and] Father through him.

1 Timothy 3:15

but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 13:15-16

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

1 Peter 4:11

If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God, if any one serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the power for ever and ever; amen.

Revelation 3:12

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