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Bible Verses About Priest

This collection includes 50 passages about Priest. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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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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And having an high priest over the house of God;

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And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

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And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest’s office.

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For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

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And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

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Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

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For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

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And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:

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And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

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For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

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Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

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Have ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

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A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

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But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

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And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them.

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As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

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And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest’s office in his father’s stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments:

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Then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord.

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(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:)

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And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

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And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.

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And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

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But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

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The Lord hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the Lord, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

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And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

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And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the Lord,

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Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

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For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.

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According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

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The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

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For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

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Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.

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But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the Lord, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:

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And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

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And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

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And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

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Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

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And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,

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And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

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