you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtu
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wea
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name
But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the ho
Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will b
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are no
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing
who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will wr
I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acce
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles migh
“And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through H
Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
May my prayer be set before You like incense; my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.
But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoic
If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength
filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure
Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that w