1 Peter 2:9

Believers are a chosen race, royal priesthood, holy nation, and God's own people, called to proclaim his praises. The church inherits Israel's titles to declare God's saving glory.

Cross-references · 40

• Exod 19:5–6Now 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.
• Deut 7:6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
• Rev 1:6who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
• Rev 5:10You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
• Isa 61:6But 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 nations, and you will boast in their riches.
• 2 Tim 1:9He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
• Deut 26:18–19And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
• Deut 14:2for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
• Eph 5:8–11For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• 1 Pet 2:5you 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.
• Titus 2:14He 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.
• Deut 10:15Yet 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.
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
• Rev 20:6Blessed 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.
• Isa 26:2Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.
• Ps 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
• Isa 60:1–3Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
• Matt 5:16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
• Col 1:13He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,
• Deut 4:20Yet 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.
• Acts 20:28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
• 1 Cor 3:17If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
• Isa 66:21“And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
• Isa 42:16I 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.
• Isa 9:2The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
• Isa 41:8“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
• Isa 43:20–21The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
• Phil 3:14I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
• Matt 4:16the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”
• 1 Th 5:4–8But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.
• Isa 44:1But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
• Phil 2:15–16so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
• Ps 106:5that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.
• Luke 1:79to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
• 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
• Rom 9:24including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
• Acts 26:28Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to become a Christian?”
• 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
• Ps 22:30Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.
• Eph 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

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