Deuteronomy 7:6

Good News Translation

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:8

Here I am among the people you have chosen to be your own, a people who are so many that they cannot be counted.

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.

Psalm 114:2

Judah became the Lord's holy people, Israel became his own possession.

Psalm 135:4

He chose Jacob for himself, the people of Israel for his own.

Psalm 50:5

He says, “Gather my faithful people to me, those who made a covenant with me by offering a sacrifice.”

Exodus 6:7

I will make you my own people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am the Lord your God when I set you free from slavery in Egypt.

Isaiah 41:8

“But you, Israel my servant, you are the people that I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham, my friend.

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 20:5

Tell them what I am saying. When I chose Israel, I made them a promise. I revealed myself to them in Egypt and told them: I am the Lord your God.

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.

Amos 3:2

“Of all the nations on earth, you are the only one I have known and cared for. That is what makes your sins so terrible, and that is why I must punish you for them.”

Malachi 3:17

“They will be my people,” says the Lord Almighty. “On the day when I act, they will be my very own. I will be merciful to them as parents are merciful to the children who serve them.

Acts 13:17

The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors and made the people a great nation during the time they lived as foreigners in Egypt. God brought them out of Egypt by his great power,

Romans 9:4

They are God's people; he made them his children and revealed his glory to them; he made his covenants with them and gave them the Law; they have the true worship; they have received God's promises;

Deuteronomy 14:2

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.

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 26:18

Today the Lord has accepted you as his own people, as he promised you; and he commands you to obey all his laws.

Deuteronomy 26:19

He will make you greater than any other nation that he has created, and you will bring praise and honor to his name. You will be his own people, as he promised.”

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 4:37

Because he loved your ancestors, he chose you, and by his great power he himself brought you out of Egypt.

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.

2 Peter 2:5

God did not spare the ancient world, but brought the flood on the world of godless people; the only ones he saved were Noah, who preached righteousness, and seven other people.

2 Peter 2:9

And so the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the Day of Judgment,

1 Samuel 12:22

The Lord has made a solemn promise, and he will not abandon you, for he has decided to make you his own people.