1 Peter 2:9

A Conservative Version

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:6

For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

Revelation 1:6

and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

Revelation 5:10

And thou made them kings and priests to our God, and they will reign over the earth.

Isaiah 61:6

But ye shall be named the priests of LORD. Men shall call you the ministers of our God. Ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory ye shall boast yourselves.

2 Timothy 1:9

Who saved us and who called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God, and LORD has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

1 Peter 2:5

ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Only LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples as at this day.

Isaiah 26:2

Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes to turn about from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, for them to receive remission of sins and a lot among those who have been sanctified by faith in me.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. On these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will reign with him a thousand years.

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

Matthew 5:16

Thus your light should shine before men, so that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father in the heavens.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

Colossians 1:13

Who rescued us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

1 Corinthians 3:17

If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy this man, for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

Acts 20:28

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit placed you guardians, to tend the church of the Lord and God, which he purchased by his own blood.

Isaiah 66:21

And of them also I will take for priests [and] for Levites, says LORD.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not. I will lead them in paths that they know not. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 41:8

But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them the light has shone.

Philippians 3:14

I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 44:1

Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.

Matthew 4:16

the people who dwell in darkness saw a great light, and to those who dwell in the region and shadow of death, light sprang up to them.

1 Peter 1:2

chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace be multiplied.

Luke 1:79

to give light to those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into a way of peace.

Psalm 106:5

that I may see the prosperity of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

Romans 9:24

even us whom he called, not only from Jews but also from Gentiles.

Acts 26:28

And Agrippa said to Paul, By a little thou persuade me to become a Christian.

1 Peter 4:11

If any man speaks, as oracles of God. If any man serves, as of ability as God supplies. So that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

Ephesians 1:6

for appreciation of the glory of his grace, by which he blessed us in him who is beloved.

Psalm 73:15

If I had said, I will speak thus, behold, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of thy sons.

Psalm 22:30

A seed shall serve him. It shall be told of LORD to the [next] generation.

Ephesians 1:14

which is a pledge of our inheritance for the redemption of the acquired possession, for appreciation of his glory.

John 17:19

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they may also themselves be sanctified in truth.

Ephesians 3:21

to him is the glory in the church in Christ Jesus for all generations of the age of the ages. Truly.

1 Samuel 12:22

For LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased LORD to make you a people to himself.

Psalm 118:27

LORD is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

Psalm 135:4

For LORD has chosen Jacob to himself, Israel for his own possession.

Isaiah 62:12

And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of LORD. And thou shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Malachi 3:17

And they shall be mine, says LORD of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

Deuteronomy 18:2

And they shall have no inheritance among their brothers. LORD is their inheritance as he has spoken to them.