1 Peter 2:5

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

You also are like living stones, and God is using you to build a spiritual house. You are to serve God in this house as holy priests, offering him spiritual sacrifices that he will accept because of Jesus Christ.

Cross References

1 Peter 2:9

But you are his chosen people, the King’s priests. You are a holy nation, people who belong to God. He chose you to tell about the wonderful things he has done. He brought you out of the darkness of sin into his wonderful light.

1 Corinthians 3:9

We are workers together for God, and you are like a farm that belongs to God. And you are a house that belongs to God.

Revelation 5:10

You made them to be a kingdom and to be priests for our God. And they will rule on the earth.”

1 Corinthians 3:16

You should know that you yourselves are God’s temple. God’s Spirit lives in you.

Isaiah 61:6

You will be called, ‘The Lord’s Priests,’ ‘The Servants of our God.’ You will be proud of all the riches that have come to you from all the nations on earth.

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ is faithful in ruling God’s house as the Son. And we are God’s house, if we remain confident of the great hope we are glad to say we have.

Revelation 20:6

Great blessings belong to those who share in this first resurrection. They are God’s holy people. The second death has no power over them. They will be priests for God and for Christ. They will rule with him for 1000 years.

1 Corinthians 6:19

You should know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit that you received from God and that lives in you. You don’t own yourselves.

Romans 12:1

So I beg you, brothers and sisters, because of the great mercy God has shown us, offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him—an offering that is only for God and pleasing to him. Considering what he has done, it is only right that you should worship him in this way.

Revelation 1:6

He made us his kingdom and priests who serve God his Father. To Jesus be glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

Philippians 4:18

I have everything I need. I have even more than I need. I have all I need because Epaphroditus brought your gift to me. Your gift is like a sweet-smelling sacrifice offered to God. God accepts that sacrifice and it pleases him.

2 Corinthians 6:16

God’s temple cannot have anything to do with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said, “I will live with them and walk with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Leviticus 26:11-12

Revelation 3:12

Those who win the victory will be pillars in the temple of my God. I will make that happen for them. They will never again have to leave God’s temple. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God. That city is the new Jerusalem. It is coming down out of heaven from my God. I will also write my new name on them.

Romans 15:16

to be a servant of Christ Jesus for those who are not Jews. I serve like a priest whose duty it is to tell God’s Good News. He gave me this work so that you non-Jewish people could be an offering that he will accept—an offering made holy by the Holy Spirit.

1 Timothy 3:15

so that, even if I cannot come soon, you will know how people should live in the family of God. That family is the church of the living God. And God’s church is the support and foundation of the truth.

Isaiah 66:21

I will also choose some of these people to be priests and Levites.” The Lord himself said this.

Psalm 50:23

Whoever gives a thank offering shows me honor. And whoever decides to live right will see my power to save.”

Colossians 3:17

Everything you say and everything you do should be done for Jesus your Lord. And in all you do, give thanks to God the Father through Jesus.

Philippians 2:17

Your faith makes you give your lives as a sacrifice in serving God. Maybe I will have to offer my own life with your sacrifice. But if that happens, I will be glad, and I will share my joy with all of you.

Psalm 141:2

Accept my prayer like a gift of burning incense, the words I lift up like an evening sacrifice.

Psalm 50:14

You made promises to God Most High, so give him what you promised. Bring your sacrifices and thank offerings.

1 Peter 4:11

If your gift is speaking, your words should be like words from God. If your gift is serving, you should serve with the strength that God gives. Then it is God who will be praised in everything through Jesus Christ. Power and glory belong to him forever and ever. Amen.

Philippians 1:11

that your life will be full of the many good works that are produced by Jesus Christ to bring glory and praise to God.

Malachi 1:11

“People all around the world respect my name. All around the world they bring good gifts to me and burn good incense as a gift to me, because my name is important to all of them.” This is what the Lord All-Powerful said.

Hosea 14:2

Think about what you will say, and come back to the Lord. Say to him, “Take away our sin, and accept these words as our sacrifice. We offer you the praise from our lips.

Exodus 19:6

You will be a special nation—a kingdom of priests.’ Moses, you must tell the Israelites what I have said.”

Proverbs 9:1

Wisdom has built her house; she has made it strong with seven columns.

Galatians 6:10

When we have the opportunity to do good to anyone, we should do it. But we should give special attention to those who are in the family of believers.

1 Peter 4:17

It is time for judging to begin. That judging will begin with God’s family. If it begins with us, then what will happen to those who don’t accept the Good News of God?

Deuteronomy 18:2

The tribe of Levi will not get any share of land like the other tribes. Their share is the Lord himself, as he said to them.

1 Kings 7:11

On top of these stones there were other expensive stones and cedar beams.