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.

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• Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
• Deut 7:6For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
• Rev 1:6And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
• Rev 5:10And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
• Isa 61:6But 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.
• 2 Tim 1:9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
• Deut 26:18–19And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
• Deut 14:2For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
• Eph 5:8–11For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
• 1 Pet 2:5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
• Deut 10:15Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
• Acts 26:18To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
• Rev 20:6Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
• Isa 26:2Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
• Ps 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
• Isa 60:1–3Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
• Matt 5:16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
• Col 1:13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
• Deut 4:20But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
• Acts 20:28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
• 1 Cor 3:17If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
• Isa 66:21And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.
• Isa 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
• Isa 9:2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
• Isa 41:8But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
• Isa 43:20–21The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
• Phil 3:14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• Matt 4:16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
• 1 Th 5:4–8But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
• Isa 44:1Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
• Phil 2:15–16That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
• Ps 106:5That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
• Luke 1:79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
• 1 Pet 1:2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
• Rom 9:24Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
• Acts 26:28Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
• 1 Pet 4:11If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
• Ps 22:30A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
• Eph 1:6To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

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