1 Peter 2:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But you are a chosen race,   ,, a royal priesthood,   , a holy nation,   , a people for his possession,   , so that you may proclaim the praises   ,, of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a holy people  belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own possession  out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Revelation 1:6

and made us a kingdom,  priests  , to his God and Father #– #to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 5:10

You made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign on the earth.

Isaiah 61:6

But you will be called the  Lord’s priests; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their riches.

2 Timothy 1:9

He has saved us and called us with a holy calling,  not according to our works,  but according to his own purpose  and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.

Deuteronomy 14:2

for you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be his own possession  out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

1 Peter 2:5

you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood  to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God  through Jesus Christ.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us  to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people for his own possession,  eager to do good works.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Yet the Lord had his heart set on your ancestors and loved them.  He chose their descendants after them #– #he chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.

Isaiah 26:2

Open the gates so a righteous nation can come in – one that remains faithful.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes   so that they may turn   from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”

Revelation 20:6

Blessed  and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! The second death  has no power  over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

Matthew 5:16

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord selected you and brought you out of Egypt’s iron furnace  to be a people for his inheritance, as you are today.

Colossians 1:13

He has rescued  us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom  of the Son  he loves.

1 Corinthians 3:17

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him;  for God’s temple is holy,  and that is what you are.

Acts 20:28

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock  of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers,  to shepherd the church of God,  which he purchased with his own blood.

Isaiah 66:21

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

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on paths they have not known. I will turn darkness to light in front of them and rough places into level ground. This is what I will do for them, and I will not abandon them.

Isaiah 41:8

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, my friend   –

Isaiah 9:2

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; a light has dawned on those living in the land of darkness.

Philippians 3:14

I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly  call in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 44:1

‘And now listen, Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen.

Matthew 4:16

The people who live in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.   ,,

1 Peter 1:2

according to the foreknowledge  of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit,  to be obedient  and to be sprinkled with the blood  of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Luke 1:79

to shine on those who live in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Romans 9:24

on us, the ones he also called,  not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

Acts 26:28

Agrippa said to Paul, ‘Are you going to persuade me to become a Christian so easily? ’

1 Peter 4:11

If anyone speaks, let it be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, let it be from the strength God provides,  so that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ in everything. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of his glorious grace  that he lavished on us in the Beloved One.

Ephesians 1:14

The Holy Spirit is the down payment  of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory.

John 17:19

I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

Ephesians 3:21

to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Samuel 12:22

The Lord will not abandon his people,  because of his great name and because he has determined to make you his own people.

Isaiah 62:12

And they will be called  the Holy People, the Lord’s Redeemed; and you will be called Cared For, A City Not Deserted.

Malachi 3:17

‘They will be mine,’ says the Lord of Armies,  ‘my own possession on the day I am preparing. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.

Deuteronomy 18:2

Although Levi has no inheritance among his brothers, the Lord is his inheritance, as he promised him.