1 Peter 2:5

Modern English Version

you also, as living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house as a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Cross References

1 Kings 7:11

Above were costly stones cut to size, along with cedars.

Psalm 141:2

Let my prayer be set as incense before You, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Psalm 50:14

“Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.

Psalm 50:23

Whoever offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies Me; to him who orders his conduct aright, I will show the salvation of God.”

Exodus 19:6

And you will be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the Israelites.”

Proverbs 9:1

Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars.

Isaiah 61:6

But you shall be named the priests of the Lord; men shall call you the ministers of our God. You shall eat the riches of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.

Isaiah 66:21

I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites, says the Lord.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you and return to the Lord. Say to Him, “Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good; and we will offer the fruit of our lips!

Malachi 1:11

For from the rising of the sun to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to My name, and a pure offering, for My name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of Hosts.

Romans 12:1

I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service of worship.

Romans 15:16

that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are laborers together with God: You are God’s field; you are God’s building.

1 Corinthians 6:19

What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God, and that you are not your own?

2 Corinthians 6:16

What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live in them and walk in them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

Galatians 6:10

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Deuteronomy 18:2

They will have no inheritance among their brothers. The Lord is their inheritance, just as He has said to them.

Philippians 1:11

being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which comes through Jesus Christ, for the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 2:17

Yes, and even if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I take delight and rejoice with you all.

Philippians 4:18

But I have everything and abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, like a sweet fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

Colossians 3:17

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

1 Timothy 3:15

but if I am delayed, you might know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ is faithful over God’s house as a Son, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of our hope firm to the end.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may declare the goodness of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

1 Peter 4:11

If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone serves, let him serve with the strength that God supplies, so that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 4:17

For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God, and if it begins first with us, what shall the end be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

Revelation 1:6

and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy is he who takes part in the first resurrection. Over these the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with Him one thousand years.

Revelation 3:12

He who overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My own new name.

Revelation 5:10

and have made us kings and priests unto our God; and we shall reign on the earth.”