24 Bible Verses about Priests, Tasks In Nt Times

And the priest of the Jupiter which was before the city brought bulls and garlands to the gates, and wished to offer sacrifices with the multitudes.

And every priest stood daily performing service and presenting often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who with an eternal spirit offered himself without fault to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.

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;

And forget not beneficence and liberality; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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

according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord to burn incense;

And when he took the book, the four cherubs and the twenty-four elders fell down before the lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which is the prayers of the saints:

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,

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

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

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.

And Herod the king hearing this was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ is born. And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea; for thus it is written by the prophet;read more.
And you Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the governors of Judah, for out of you shall come a governor who shall rule my people Israel.

AND this is the testimony of John, when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, Who are you?

I DECLARE to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you adhere to the word we preached to you, unless indeed you believed in vain. For I delivered to you at first, what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,read more.
and that he was buried, and that he rose on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

Retain the form of sound words which you heard from me in faith and the love in Christ Jesus. Guard the good trust, through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.

and what you heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others also.

And Jesus said to him, See that you tell no man, but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift which Moses commanded for a testimony to them.

and said to him, See that you say nothing to any one, but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

And he charged him to tell no one, but go and show yourself to the priest, and present an offering for your purification, as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

And seeing them, he said, Go and show yourselves to the priests. And as they were going they were cleansed.

Then he said to them again, Peace be to you; as the Father has sent me, I also send you. And having said this he breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. Those whose sins you forgive, are forgiven; and whose you retain, are retained.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be cured, for the prayer of the righteous operates with great power.