But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Cross References Exodus 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations--for the whole earth is Mine. Exodus 19:6 And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites." Deuteronomy 4:20 Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today. Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a people holy unto the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be as a people for His prized possession, above all peoples on the face of the earth. Deuteronomy 10:15 Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day. Deuteronomy 14:2 for you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth. Deuteronomy 26:18 And today the LORD has proclaimed you to be His people, a treasured possession as He promised, and that you are to keep all His commandments, Deuteronomy 26:19 and that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God as He promised. 1 Samuel 12:22 Indeed, for the sake of His great name the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own. Psalm 118:27 The LORD is God and has made His light shine upon us. Bind the festival sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. Psalm 135:4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession. Isaiah 9:2 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned. Isaiah 42:16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them. Isaiah 43:20 The animals of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people. Isaiah 43:21 The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise. Isaiah 61:6 But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their riches. Isaiah 62:12 And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken. Isaiah 66:21 And I will select some of them as priests and Levites," says the LORD. Malachi 3:17 "They will be Mine," says the LORD of Hosts, "on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him. Titus 2:14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. Chapter Outline 1. He exhorts to put away wickedness;4. showing that Christ is the foundation whereupon they are built. 11. He beseeches them also to abstain from sinful desires; 13. to be obedient to authorities; 18. and teaches servants how to obey their masters; 20. patiently suffering for well doing, after the example of Christ. Jump to Previous Belonging Choice Chosen Clear Completely Dark Darkness Declare Deeds Elect Excellence Forth Generation God's Heaven Holy Kingly Kings Light Marvellous Marvelous Nation Peculiar Perfections Possession Praises Priesthood Priests Proclaim Race Royal Shew Show Special Specially Virtues WonderfulJump to Next Belonging Choice Chosen Clear Completely Dark Darkness Declare Deeds Elect Excellence Forth Generation God's Heaven Holy Kingly Kings Light Marvellous Marvelous Nation Peculiar Perfections Possession Praises Priesthood Priests Proclaim Race Royal Shew Show Special Specially Virtues Wonderful |
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