1 Peter 2:5

James Moffatt - New Testament

come and, like living stones yourselves, be built into a spiritual house, to form a consecrated priesthood for the offering of those spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Cross References

1 Peter 2:9

But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light —

1 Corinthians 3:9

We work together in God's service; you are God's field to be planted, God's house to be built.

Revelation 5:10

thou hast made them kings and priests for our God, and they shall reign on earth."

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells within you?

Hebrews 3:6

Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. Now we are this house of God, if we will only keep confident and proud of our hope.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection; over such the second death has no power, they shall be priests of God and the Christ, and reign along with him during the thousand years.

1 Corinthians 6:19

Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you — the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own,

Romans 12:1

Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.

Revelation 1:6

he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, — to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.

Philippians 4:18

Your debt to me is fully paid and more than paid! I am amply supplied with what you have sent by Epaphroditus, a fragrant perfume, the sort of sacrifice that God approves and welcomes.

2 Corinthians 6:16

What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.

Revelation 3:12

'As for the conqueror, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God (nevermore shall he leave it), and I will inscribe on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem which descends out of heaven from my God), and my own new name.'

Romans 15:16

as a priest of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the service of God's gospel. My aim is to make the Gentiles an acceptable offering, consecrated by the holy Spirit.

1 Timothy 3:15

in case I am detained, to let you see how people ought to behave within the household of God; it is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the Truth.

Colossians 3:17

Indeed, whatever you say or do, let everything be done in dependence on the Lord Jesus, giving thanks in his name to God the Father.

Philippians 2:17

Even if my life-blood has to be poured as a libation on the sacred sacrifice of faith you are offering to God, I rejoice, I congratulate you all —

1 Peter 4:11

If anyone preaches, he must preach as one who utters the words of God; if anyone renders some service, it must be as one who is supplied by God with power, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the dominion are his for ever and ever: Amen.

Philippians 1:11

your life covered with that harvest of righteousness which Jesus Christ produces to the glory and the praise of God.

Galatians 6:10

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men and in particular to the household of the faith.

1 Peter 4:17

It is time for the Judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the fate of those who refuse obedience to God's gospel?