Isaiah 61:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but you shall be called priests of the Lord; you shall be named ministers of our God; you shall enjoy the wealth of the nations, and in their riches you shall glory.

Cross References

Exodus 19:6

but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.”

Isaiah 23:18

Her merchandise and her wages will be dedicated to the Lord; her profits will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who live in the presence of the Lord.

Isaiah 54:3

For you will spread out to the right and to the left, and your descendants will possess nations and will settle desolate towns.

Isaiah 56:6

And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath and do not profane it and hold fast my covenant—

Isaiah 66:12

For thus says the Lord: I will extend prosperity to her like a river and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you shall nurse and be carried on her arm and bounced on her knees.

Isaiah 66:21

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

Jeremiah 33:18

and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to make grain offerings, and to make sacrifices for all time.

Ezekiel 14:11

so that the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me nor defile themselves any more with all their transgressions. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord God.

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each.

1 Corinthians 4:1

Think of us in this way: as servants of Christ and stewards of God’s mysteries.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.

2 Corinthians 6:4

but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: in great endurance, afflictions, hardships, calamities,

Deuteronomy 18:2

but they shall have no inheritance among the other members of the community; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.

1 Peter 2:5

like living stones let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Revelation 1:6

and made us a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. Over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him a thousand years.

Revelation 5:10

you have made them a kingdom and priests serving our God, and they will reign on earth.”