1 Peter 2:5

Good News Translation

Come as living stones, and let yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple, where you will serve as holy priests to offer spiritual and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ.

Cross References

1 Kings 7:11

On top of them were other stones, cut to measure, and cedar beams.

Psalm 141:2

Receive my prayer as incense, my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice.

Psalm 50:14

Let the giving of thanks be your sacrifice to God, and give the Almighty all that you promised.

Psalm 50:23

Giving thanks is the sacrifice that honors me, and I will surely save all who obey me.”

Exodus 19:6

a people dedicated to me alone, and you will serve me as priests.”

Proverbs 9:1

Wisdom has built her house and made seven columns for it.

Isaiah 61:6

And you will be known as the priests of the Lord, The servants of our God. You will enjoy the wealth of the nations And be proud that it is yours.

Isaiah 66:21

I will make some of them priests and Levites.

Hosea 14:2

Return to the Lord, and let this prayer be your offering to him: “Forgive all our sins and accept our prayer, and we will praise you as we have promised.

Malachi 1:11

People from one end of the world to the other honor me. Everywhere they burn incense to me and offer acceptable sacrifices. All of them honor me!

Romans 12:1

So then, my friends, because of God's great mercy to us I appeal to you: Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer.

Romans 15:16

of being a servant of Christ Jesus to work for the Gentiles. I serve like a priest in preaching the Good News from God, in order that the Gentiles may be an offering acceptable to God, dedicated to him by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Surely you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you!

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are partners working together for God, and you are God's field. You are also God's building.

1 Corinthians 6:19

Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourselves but to God;

2 Corinthians 6:16

How can God's temple come to terms with pagan idols? For we are the temple of the living God! As God himself has said, “I will make my home with my people and live among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

Galatians 6:10

So then, as often as we have the chance, we should do good to everyone, and especially to those who belong to our family in the faith.

Deuteronomy 18:2

They are to own no land, as the other tribes do; their share is the privilege of being the Lord's priests, as the Lord has promised.

Philippians 1:11

Your lives will be filled with the truly good qualities which only Jesus Christ can produce, for the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 2:17

Perhaps my life's blood is to be poured out like an offering on the sacrifice that your faith offers to God. If that is so, I am glad and share my joy with you all.

Philippians 4:18

Here, then, is my receipt for everything you have given me—and it has been more than enough! I have all I need now that Epaphroditus has brought me all your gifts. They are like a sweet-smelling offering to God, a sacrifice which is acceptable and pleasing to him.

Colossians 3:17

Everything you do or say, then, should be done in the name of the Lord Jesus, as you give thanks through him to God the Father.

1 Timothy 3:15

But if I delay, this letter will let you know how we should conduct ourselves in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.

1 Peter 4:11

Those who preach must preach God's messages; those who serve must serve with the strength that God gives them, so that in all things praise may be given to God through Jesus Christ, to whom belong glory and power forever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 4:17

The time has come for judgment to begin, and God's own people are the first to be judged. If it starts with us, how will it end with those who do not believe the Good News from God?

Revelation 1:6

and made us a kingdom of priests to serve his God and Father. To Jesus Christ be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

Revelation 20:6

Happy and greatly blessed are those who are included in this first raising of the dead. The second death has no power over them; they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they will rule with him for a thousand years.

Revelation 3:12

I will make those who are victorious pillars in the temple of my God, and they will never leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which will come down out of heaven from my God. I will also write on them my new name.

Revelation 5:10

You have made them a kingdom of priests to serve our God, and they shall rule on earth.”