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Want to know what the Bible says about Priests? Here are 189 Bible verses about Priests from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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1 Peter 2:9 NIV
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
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Revelation 1:6 NIV
and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father —to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.
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1 Peter 2:5 NIV
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.
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1 Timothy 2:5 NIV
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,
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Revelation 5:10 NIV
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God,
    and they will reign on the earth.”
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Numbers 18:7 NIV
But only you and your sons may serve as priests in connection with everything at the altar and inside the curtain. I am giving you the service of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone else who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.
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2 Chronicles 13:11 NIV
Every morning and evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the Lord. They set out the bread on the ceremonially clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. We are observing the requirements of the Lord our God. But you have forsaken him.
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Malachi 2:7 NIV
“For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth.
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Exodus 19:6 NIV
you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”
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Revelation 20:6 NIV
Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
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Hebrews 8:3 NIV
Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer.
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Romans 12:1 NIV
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
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James 5:16 NIV
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
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Hebrews 5:10 NIV
and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
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Hebrews 5:1 NIV
Every high priest is selected from among the people and is appointed to represent the people in matters related to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
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Ezekiel 40:46 NIV
and the room facing north is for the priests who guard the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who are the only Levites who may draw near to the Lord to minister before him.
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Numbers 3:10 NIV
Appoint Aaron and his sons to serve as priests; anyone else who approaches the sanctuary is to be put to death.”
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Hebrews 5:6 NIV
And he says in another place,
“You are a priest forever,
    in the order of Melchizedek.
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1 Timothy 3:2 NIV
Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
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Hebrews 6:20 NIV
where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.
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