1 Peter 2:9

American King James Version (1999)

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;

Cross References

Psalm 106:5

That I may see the good of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.

Psalm 118:27

God is the LORD, which has showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

Psalm 135:4

For the LORD has chosen Jacob to himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

Psalm 22:30

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Psalm 33:12

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

Psalm 73:15

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of your children.

Isaiah 26:2

Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.

Isaiah 41:8

But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

Isaiah 42:16

And 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 to them, and not forsake them.

Isaiah 44:1

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

Isaiah 61:6

But you shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.

Isaiah 62:12

And they shall call them, 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 of them for priests and for Levites, said the LORD.

Isaiah 9:2

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, on them has the light shined.

Malachi 3:17

And they shall be mine, said the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.

Matthew 4:16

The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Matthew 5:16

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Luke 1:79

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

John 17:19

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

Acts 20:28

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

Acts 26:18

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Acts 26:28

Then Agrippa said to Paul, Almost you persuade me to be a Christian.

Romans 9:24

Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

1 Corinthians 3:17

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

Ephesians 1:14

Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 1:6

To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted in the beloved.

Ephesians 3:21

To him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are an holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations that are on the earth.

Deuteronomy 18:2

Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brothers: the LORD is their inheritance, as he has said to them.

Deuteronomy 4:20

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

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are an holy people to the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people to himself, above all people that are on the face of the earth.

Philippians 3:14

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

Colossians 1:13

Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

2 Timothy 1:9

Who has 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,

Titus 2:14

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

1 Peter 1:2

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

1 Peter 2:5

You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:11

If 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 gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 1:6

And has made us kings and priests to God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Revelation 5:10

And have made us to our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

1 Samuel 12:22

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