Exodus 19:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation [consecrated, set apart to the worship of God]. These are the words you shall speak to the Israelites.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

Common English Bible

⁶ You will be a kingdom of priests for me and a holy nation. These are the words you should say to the Israelites.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And you will be to me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation.' These are the words that you will speak to the sons of Israel."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation. Those are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.

Exodus 19:6 Cross References

1 Kings 3:8

And your servant is in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a great people so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted.

1 Kings 8:53

For you have separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, just as you promised through Moses, your servant, when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Lord God.”

1 Chronicles 17:22

And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God.

Psalm 114:2

Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

Exodus 15:26

He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not bring upon you any of the diseases that I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you.”

Exodus 22:31

“You shall be people consecrated to me, so you shall not eat any meat that is mangled by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

Exodus 28:36

“You shall make a rosette of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the Lord.’

Isaiah 43:4

Because you are precious in my sight and honored and I love you, I give people in return for you, nations in exchange for your life.

Isaiah 61:6

but you shall be called priests of the Lord; you shall be named ministers of our God; you shall enjoy the wealth of the nations, and in their riches you shall glory.

Isaiah 62:12

They shall be called, “The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord,” and you shall be called, “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.”

Isaiah 66:21

And I will also take some of them as priests and as Levites, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 13:11

For as the loincloth clings to one’s loins, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the Lord, in order that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory. But they would not listen.

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was holy to the Lord, the first fruits of his harvest. All who ate of it were held guilty; disaster came upon them, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:23

But this command I gave them, “Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; walk only in the way that I command you, so that it may be well with you.”

Leviticus 19:2

“Speak to all the congregation of the Israelites and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

Leviticus 20:24

But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God; I have separated you from the peoples.’

Leviticus 20:26

You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples to be mine.

Leviticus 21:23

But he shall not come near the curtain or approach the altar because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the Lord; I sanctify them.”

Amos 3:2

You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Haggai 2:5

according to the promise that I made you when you came out of Egypt. My spirit abides among you; do not fear.

Numbers 16:3

They assembled against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! All the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. So why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.

1 Corinthians 3:17

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Deuteronomy 14:21

“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to aliens residing in your towns for them to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 26:19

for him to set you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in fame and in honor; and for you to be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.”

Deuteronomy 28:9

The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

1 Thessalonians 5:27

I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brothers and sisters.

1 Peter 2:5

like living stones let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Revelation 1:6

and made us a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. Over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him a thousand years.

Revelation 5:10

you have made them a kingdom and priests serving our God, and they will reign on earth.”