the Lord

Psalm 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!

Deuteronomy 7:6, 7
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.

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.

Isaiah 41:8
But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend--

Isaiah 43:20, 21
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. . . .

Zechariah 2:10-12
"Shout for joy and be glad, O daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you, " declares the LORD. . . .

1 Peter 2:9
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.

his peculiar

Exodus 19:5, 6
Now 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. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:9
But the LORD's portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.

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.