Bible Verses About The Priesthood Of All Believers And The Church

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Core Bible text for believers as holy priesthood

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

Direct royal priesthood wording applied to believers

And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

Old Testament foundation for royal priesthood and holy nation.

And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Direct Revelation wording used for believers

For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

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For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:

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Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Direct Hebrews text on Christ's once-for-all sacrifice

And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

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I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Shows the living sacrifice language behind later Christian use

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

Christ's priesthood after Melchizedek

Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

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And having an high priest over the house of God;

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That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

Priestly service language for gospel ministry

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Heavenly sacrifices context related to priestly service.

For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

High-priest sacrifice wording used as background contrast.

But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:

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And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

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Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

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Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

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And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

Parallel Revelation passage on kings and priests.

But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

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For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

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For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

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So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

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For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

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For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

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And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

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