But you shall be called, Priests of Jehovah; it will be said of you, Ministers of our God. You shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall be exchanged.
And her gain and her wages shall be holiness to Jehovah; it shall not be hoarded and not stored; for her gain shall be for those who dwell before Jehovah, to eat to satiety, and for a choice covering.
And the sons of the alien who join themselves on Jehovah to serve Him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be His servants, every one who keeps from defiling the sabbath, and takes hold of My covenant,
For thus says Jehovah: Behold, I stretch out peace to her like a river, and like an overflowing torrent, the glory of the nations. And you shall nurse; you shall be lifted on the side, and you shall be dandled on the knees.
And for the Levitical priests, they shall not have a man cut off before Me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle food offerings, and to do sacrifice all the days.
So that the house of Israel may not stray any more from after Me, and not be defiled again with all their transgressions; but they are to Me for a people, and I will be to them for God, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
Therefore, brothers, I call on you through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself) I being beyond them: in labors, more abundantly; in stripes, beyond measure; in prisons, much more; in deaths, many times.
But you are “an elect race,” “a royal priesthood,” “a holy nation,” “a people for possession,” so that “you may proclaim the excellencies” of the One who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; LXX-Ex. 23:22; MT-Ex. 19:5, 6
Blessed and holy is the one having part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him a thousand years.