1 Peter 2:5

A Living Stone, A Chosen People

⁴ Keep on coming to Him, as to a living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious in His sight, ⁵ and keep on building yourselves up, as living stones, into a spiritual house for a consecrated priesthood, to offer up, through Jesus Christ, spiritual sacrifices that will be acceptable to God. ⁶ It must be so, because the Scriptures say: "Here now I lay in Zion a chosen stone, a costly cornerstone, And not a single one who puts his trust in Him will ever be put to shame."

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

I have received your payment in full, and more too. I am amply supplied after getting the things you sent by Epaphroditus; they are like sweet incense, the kind of sacrifice that God accepts and approves.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

Romans 12:1

I beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

1 Corinthians 3:9

for we belong to God as His fellow-workers; you belong to God as His field to be tilled, as His building to be built.

Ephesians 2:20-22

for you are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself the cornerstone.

Hebrews 3:6

but Christ as a Son set over the house of God was faithful; and we are that house, if we keep up our courage and the joy that hope inspires to the very end.

Revelation 1:6

and has made us a kingdom of priests for His God and Father: to Him be glory forever. Amen.

Revelation 5:10

and have made them a kingdom of priests for our God; and they will rule over the earth."

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy is the man who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death will have no power, but they will be priests of God and Christ, and reign with Him the thousand years.

John 4:22-24

You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping; we Jews do know what we are worshiping; for salvation comes from the Jews.

Romans 15:16

in making me a minister of Christ Jesus to the heathen peoples, to have me act as a sacrificing minister of the good news, in order that my offering of the heathen peoples to God may be acceptable, consecrated by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Are you not conscious that you are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God has His permanent home in you?

1 Corinthians 6:19

Or, are you not conscious that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is in you, whom you have as a gift from God? Furthermore, you are not your own,

2 Corinthians 6:16

And what agreement can a temple of God make with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: "I will live in them and walk in them, and I will be their God and they will be my people."

Philippians 1:11

men that are abounding in the fruits of right-doing with the help of Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

Philippians 2:17

Yes, even if I am pouring out my life as a libation on the sacrifice and service your faith is rendering, I am glad to do so and congratulate you upon it;

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you say or do, let it all be done with reference to the Lord Jesus, and through Him continue to give thanks to God the Father.

1 Timothy 3:15

so that, if I am detained, you may know how people ought to conduct themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 13:15-16

So then, through Christ, let us always offer God the sacrifice of praise; that is, the speech of lips that glorify the name of God.

1 Peter 4:11

If anyone is preaching, let him do it as one who utters the oracles of God; if anyone is rendering any service to others, let him do it with all the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 3:12

I will make him who conquers a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall never again go out of it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.