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Psalms 65:4
How happy is the one You choose and bring near to live in Your courts! We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.
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Leviticus 10:3
So Moses said to Aaron,“ This is what the Lord meant when He said: I will show My holiness to those who are near Me, and I will reveal My glory before all the people.” But Aaron remained silent.
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Numbers 17:5
The staff of the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid Myself of the Israelites’ complaints that they have been making about you.”
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Numbers 16:3
They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them,“ You have gone too far! Everyone in the entire community is holy, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the Lord’s assembly?”
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2 Timothy 2 19
Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, having this inscription: The Lord knows those who are His, and Everyone who names the name of the Lord must turn away from unrighteousness.
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2 Timothy 2 3-2 Timothy 2 4
Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the recruiter.
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Ezekiel 44:15-16
“ But the Levitical priests descended from Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from Me, will approach Me to serve Me. They will stand before Me to offer Me fat and blood.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.“ They are the ones who may enter My sanctuary and draw near to My table to serve Me. They will keep My mandate.
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Acts 1:2
until the day He was taken up, after He had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles He had chosen.
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Revelation 5:9-10
And they sang a new song: You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because You were slaughtered, and You redeemed people for God by Your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation.You made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign on the earth.
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Psalms 105:26
He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.
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Acts 13:2
As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said,“ Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work I have called them to.”
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Exodus 28:1
“ Have your brother Aaron, with his sons, come to you from the Israelites to serve Me as priest— Aaron, his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
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Ezekiel 40:46
The chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the ones from the sons of Levi who may approach the Lord to serve Him.”
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Acts 1:24
Then they prayed,“ You, Lord, know the hearts of all; show which of these two You have chosen
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Revelation 1:6
and made us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father— the glory and dominion are His forever and ever. Amen.
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Acts 22:14
Then he said,‘ The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear the sound of His voice.
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1 Samuel 2 28
Out of all the tribes of Israel, I selected your house to be priests, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave your house all the Israelite fire offerings.
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John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
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1 Peter 2 5-1 Peter 2 9
you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.For it is contained in Scripture: Look! I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and honored cornerstone, and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame!So honor will come to you who believe, but for the unbelieving, The stone that the builders rejected— this One has become the cornerstone,and A stone to stumble over, and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the message; they were destined for this.But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
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Leviticus 21:12-15
He must not leave the sanctuary or he will desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am Yahweh.“ He is to marry a woman who is a virgin.He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,so that he does not corrupt his bloodline among his people, for I am Yahweh who sets him apart.”
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Exodus 28:43
These must be worn by Aaron and his sons whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister in the sanctuary area, so that they do not incur guilt and die. This is to be a permanent statute for Aaron and for his future descendants.
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Isaiah 61:5-6
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.But you will be called the Lord’s priests; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their riches.
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Acts 15:7
After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them:“ Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.
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Hebrews 10:19-22
Therefore, brothers, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,by a new and living way He has opened for us through the curtain( that is, His flesh),and since we have a great high priest over the house of God,let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
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Leviticus 21:6-8
They are to be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they present the fire offerings to Yahweh, the food of their God, and they must be holy.They are not to marry a woman defiled by prostitution. They are not to marry one divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.You are to consider him holy since he presents the food of your God. He will be holy to you because I, Yahweh who sets you apart, am holy.
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Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness— without it no one will see the Lord.
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Ephesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.
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Leviticus 8:2
“ Take Aaron, his sons with him, the garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
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Malachi 3:18
So you will again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.