Deuteronomy 7:6

Catholic Public Domain Version

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you so that you would be his particular people out of all the peoples who are upon the earth.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:8

And your servant is in the midst of the people that you have chosen, an immense people, who are not able to be numbered or counted because of their multitude.

Ezra 9:2

For they have taken from their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and they have mixed a holy lineage with the peoples of the lands. And even the hand of the leaders and the magistrates has been first in this transgression."

Psalm 114:2

For he has inclined his ear to me. And in my days, I will call upon him.

Psalm 135:4

He alone performs great miracles, for his mercy is eternal.

Psalm 50:5

For I know my iniquity, and my sin is ever before me.

Exodus 6:7

And I will take you to myself as my people, and I will be your God. And you will know that I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the work house of the Egyptians,

Isaiah 41:8

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

Isaiah 41:9

For his sake, I have taken you from the ends of the earth, and I have called you from its distant places. And I said to you: "You are my servant. I have chosen you, and I have not cast you aside."

Isaiah 6:13

But still, there will be a tithing within her, and she will be converted, and she will be put on display, like a terebinth tree and like an oak which extends its branches. And what will remain standing within her will be a holy offspring.

Isaiah 62:12

And they will call them: The holy people, the redeemed of the Lord. Then you will be called: A city sought, and not forsaken.

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel is holy to the Lord, the first of his fruits. All those who devour him commit an offense. Evils will overwhelm them, says the Lord."

Ezekiel 20:5

And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord God: In the day when I chose Israel, and I lifted up my hand on behalf of the stock of the house of Jacob, and I appeared to them in the land of Egypt, and I lifted up my hand on their behalf, saying, 'I am the Lord your God,'

Leviticus 20:24

But I say to you: Possess their land, which I will give to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the other peoples.

Leviticus 20:26

You shall be holy unto me, because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples, so that you would be mine.

Amos 3:2

I have known only you in such a way, out of all the families of the earth. For this reason, I will visit upon you all your iniquities.

Malachi 3:17

And they will be my special possession, says the Lord of hosts, on the day that I act. And I will spare them, just as a man spares his son who serves him.

Acts 13:17

The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people, when they were settlers in the land of Egypt. And with an exalted arm, he led them away from there.

Romans 9:4

These are the Israelites, to whom belongs adoption as sons, and the glory and the testament, and the giving and following of the law, and the promises.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people, for the Lord your God. And he chose you, so that you may be a people particularly his, out of all the nations on earth.

Deuteronomy 14:21

But whatever has died of itself, you shall not eat from it. Give it to the sojourner, who is within your gates, so that he may eat, or sell it to him. For you are the holy people of the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of his mother.

Deuteronomy 26:18

Today, the Lord has chosen you, so that you may be his particular people, just as he has spoken to you, and so that you may keep all his precepts,

Deuteronomy 26:19

and so that he may cause you to be more exalted than all the nations which he has created, for the sake of his own praise and name and glory, in order that you may be a holy people for the Lord your God, just as he has spoken."

Deuteronomy 28:9

The Lord will raise you up as a holy people for himself, just as he swore to you, if you will keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in his ways.

Deuteronomy 33:3

He loved the people; all the holy ones are in his hand. And those who approach his feet shall receive from his doctrine.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord has taken you up, and led you away from the iron furnaces of Egypt, in order to have a people of inheritance, just as it is to the present day.

Deuteronomy 4:37

For he loved your fathers, and he chose their offspring after them. And he led you away from Egypt, advancing before you with his great power,

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for our sake, so that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and might cleanse for himself an acceptable people, pursuers of good works.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, an acquired people, so that you may announce the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

2 Peter 2:5

And he did not spare the original world, but he preserved the eighth one, Noah, the herald of justice, bringing the flood upon the world of the impious.

2 Peter 2:9

Thus, the Lord knows how to rescue the pious from trials, and how to reserve the iniquitous for torments on the day of judgment;

1 Samuel 12:22

And the Lord will not abandon his people, because of his great name. For the Lord has sworn to make you his people.