1 Peter 2:5

New Century Version

You also are like living stones, so let yourselves be used to build a spiritual temple—to be holy priests who offer spiritual sacrifices to God. He will accept those sacrifices through Jesus Christ.

Cross References

1 Kings 7:11

On top of these foundation stones were other blocks of fine stone and cedar beams.

Psalm 141:2

Let my prayer be like incense placed before you, and my praise like the evening sacrifice.

Psalm 50:14

Give an offering to show thanks to God. Give God Most High what you have promised.

Psalm 50:23

Those people honor me who bring me offerings to show thanks. And I, God, will save those who do that.”

Exodus 19:6

you will be my kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ You must tell the Israelites these words.”

Proverbs 9:1

Wisdom has built her house; she has made its seven columns.

Isaiah 61:6

You will be called priests of the Lord; you will be named the servants of our God. You will have riches from all the nations on earth, and you will take pride in them.

Isaiah 66:21

“And I will choose even some of these people to be priests and Levites,” says the Lord.

Hosea 14:2

Come back to the Lord and say these words to him: “Take away all our sin and kindly receive us, and we will keep the promises we made to you.

Malachi 1:11

“From the east to the west I will be honored among the nations. Everywhere they will bring incense and clean offerings to me, because I will be honored among the nations,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

Romans 12:1

So brothers and sisters, since God has shown us great mercy, I beg you to offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him. Your offering must be only for God and pleasing to him, which is the spiritual way for you to worship.

Romans 15:16

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to those who are not Jews. I served God by teaching his Good News, so that the non-Jewish people could be an offering that God would accept—an offering made holy by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

1 Corinthians 3:9

We are God’s workers, working together; you are like God’s farm, God’s house.

1 Corinthians 6:19

You should know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit who is in you. You have received the Holy Spirit from God. So you do not belong to yourselves,

2 Corinthians 6:16

The temple of God cannot have any agreement with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said: “I will live with them and walk with them. And I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

Galatians 6:10

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

Deuteronomy 18:2

They will not inherit any of the land like their brothers, but they will inherit the Lord himself, as he has promised them.

Philippians 1:11

that you will be filled with the good things produced in your life by Christ to bring glory and praise to God.

Philippians 2:17

Your faith makes you offer your lives as a sacrifice in serving God. If I have to offer my own blood with your sacrifice, I will be happy and full of joy with all of you.

Philippians 4:18

And now I have everything, and more. I have all I need, because Epaphroditus brought your gift to me. It is like a sweet-smelling sacrifice offered to God, who accepts that sacrifice and is pleased with it.

Colossians 3:17

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

1 Timothy 3:15

Then, even if I am delayed, you will know how to live in the family of God. That family is the church of the living God, the support and foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ is faithful as a Son over God’s house. And we are God’s house if we confidently maintain our hope.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, royal priests, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession. You were chosen to tell about the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

1 Peter 4:11

Anyone who speaks should speak words from God. Anyone who serves should serve with the strength God gives so that in everything God will be praised through Jesus Christ. Power and glory belong to him forever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 4:17

It is time for judgment to begin with God’s family. And if that judging begins with us, what will happen to those people who do not obey the Good News of God?

Revelation 1:6

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

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy are those who share in this first raising of the dead. The second death has no power over them. They will be priests for God and for Christ and will rule with him for a thousand years.

Revelation 3:12

I will make those who win the victory pillars in the temple of my God, and they will never have to leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, that comes down out of heaven from my God. I will also write on them my new name.

Revelation 5:10

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