Deuteronomy 14:2

Good News Translation

You belong to the Lord your God; he has chosen you to be his own people from among all the peoples who live on earth.

Cross References

Ezra 9:2

Jewish men were marrying foreign women, and so God's holy people had become contaminated. The leaders and officials were the chief offenders.

Isaiah 41:9

I brought you from the ends of the earth; I called you from its farthest corners and said to you, ‘You are my servant.’ I did not reject you, but chose you.

Isaiah 6:13

Even if one person out of ten remains in the land, he too will be destroyed; he will be like the stump of an oak tree that has been cut down.” (The stump represents a new beginning for God's people.)

Isaiah 62:12

You will be called “God's Holy People,” “The People the Lord Has Saved.” Jerusalem will be called “The City That God Loves,” “The City That God Did Not Forsake.”

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel, you belonged to me alone; you were my sacred possession. I sent suffering and disaster on everyone who hurt you. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Ezekiel 21:2

“Mortal man,” he said, “denounce Jerusalem. Denounce the places where people worship. Warn the land of Israel

Daniel 12:7

The angel raised both hands toward the sky and made a solemn promise in the name of the Eternal God. I heard him say, “It will be three and a half years. When the persecution of God's people ends, all these things will have happened.”

Daniel 8:24

He will grow strong—but not by his own power. He will cause terrible destruction and be successful in everything he does. He will bring destruction on powerful men and on God's own people.

Leviticus 11:45

I am the Lord who brought you out of Egypt so that I could be your God. You must be holy, because I am holy.

Leviticus 19:2

to say to the community of Israel, “Be holy, because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

Leviticus 20:24

But I have promised you this rich and fertile land as your possession, and I will give it to you. I am the Lord your God, and I have set you apart from the other nations.

Leviticus 20:26

You shall be holy and belong only to me, because I am the Lord and I am holy. I have set you apart from the other nations so that you would belong to me alone.

Romans 12:1

So then, my friends, because of God's great mercy to us I appeal to you: Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer.

Deuteronomy 14:21

“Do not eat any animal that dies a natural death. You may let the foreigners who live among you eat it, or you may sell it to other foreigners. But you belong to the Lord your God; you are his people. “Do not cook a young sheep or goat in its mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 28:9

“If you obey the Lord your God and do everything he commands, he will make you his own people, as he has promised.

Deuteronomy 33:3

The Lord loves his people and protects those who belong to him. So we bow at his feet and obey his commands.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But you are the people he rescued from Egypt, that blazing furnace. He brought you out to make you his own people, as you are today.

Deuteronomy 7:6

Do this because you belong to the Lord your God. From all the peoples on earth he chose you to be his own special people.

Deuteronomy 7:7

“The Lord did not love you and choose you because you outnumbered other peoples; you were the smallest nation on earth.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us, to rescue us from all wickedness and to make us a pure people who belong to him alone and are eager to do good.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.