 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.  Conversations on Religious Subjects Between a Father and His Two Sons - Page 37de Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1835 - 120 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Jonathan Dickinson - 1841 - 338 pages
...whom coming as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious, ye also are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in... | |
 | Vanbrugh Livingston - 1841 - 242 pages
...works of all the servants of God, in every age of his holy Church. For they are all " living stones, built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." From the beginning, then, of this world's creation, we see how... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1842 - 442 pages
...desiring the sincere milk of the word, that we may grow thereby." " If so be," as St. Peter proceeds, " ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious ; to whom...holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Unto you, therefore, that believe, He is precious ; but unto them... | |
 | Henry Venn - 1839 - 444 pages
...JOHN'S, HOLLOWAY ; LATE FELLOW OP QUEBN's COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. " To whom coming as unto a livi^^pone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious....holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ."—! Peter, 3 : 4, 5. C. PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...who, &c. hath begotten us again to a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus, &c. — 1 Pet. i. 3. Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual...holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ, &c. Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,... | |
 | John Harris - 1842 - 504 pages
...every individual believer, but every particular Church, is a living temple. Its members, " as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." And may we not suppose, must we not believe, that as often as we... | |
 | Simon Clough - 1843 - 574 pages
...Targum, kings and priests. This all Christians are already made. " Ye also," says St. Peter, " as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood,...sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ ;" 1 Pet. ii., 5. And St. John says : " And hath made us kings and Sriests unto God and his Father;" i.,... | |
 | Jean Daillé - 1843 - 472 pages
...their reasonable service, as the apostle says, Rom. xii. 1 ; whence also St. Peter calls them all " a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ," 1 Pet. ii. 5. And this is the reason that the Scripture honours with the name of sacrifices, all those... | |
 | James Backhouse - 1843 - 768 pages
...of God, thus revealed in the secret of the heart, spiritual worshippers — " lively stones," that " are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ."* The following testimonies of the apostle Paul afford a further... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1843 - 854 pages
...stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and made honourable by God : be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore it is said in the scripture : " Behold I lay in Sion a... | |
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