1 Peter 2:9

Legacy Standard Bible

But you are a chosen family, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Cross References

Psalm 106:5

That I may see the goodness of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may boast with Your inheritance.

Psalm 118:27

Yahweh is God, and He has given us light; Bind the festival sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.

Psalm 135:4

For Yah has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His treasured possession.

Psalm 22:30

Their seed will serve Him; It will be recounted about the Lord to the coming generation.

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

Psalm 73:15

¶If I had said, “I will recount thus,” Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

Isaiah 26:2

“Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that keeps faithfulness.

Isaiah 41:8

“But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham My friend,

Isaiah 42:16

“I will lead the blind by a way they do not know, In paths they do not know I will guide them. I will make darkness into light before them And rugged places into plains. These are the things I will do, And I will not forsake them.”

Isaiah 44:1

“But now hear, O Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have chosen:

Isaiah 61:6

But you will be called the priests of Yahweh; You will be spoken of as ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of nations, And in their glories you will boast.

Isaiah 62:12

And they will call them, “The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh”; And you will be called, “Sought out, a city not forsaken.”

Isaiah 66:21

I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in the land of the shadow of death, The light will shine on them.

Malachi 3:17

“And they will be Mine,” says Yahweh of hosts, “on the day that I prepare My own treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.”

Matthew 4:16

The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light, And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death, Upon them a Light dawned.”

Matthew 5:16

Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Luke 1:79

To shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To direct our feet into the way of peace.”

John 17:19

For their sake I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

Acts 20:28

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’

Acts 26:28

But Agrippa replied to Paul, “In such short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?”

Romans 9:24

even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles?

1 Corinthians 3:17

If any man destroys the sanctuary of God, God will destroy him, for the sanctuary of God is holy, and that is what you are.

Ephesians 1:14

who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He graciously bestowed on us in the Beloved.

Ephesians 3:21

to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Yet on your fathers did Yahweh set His affection to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for His treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 18:2

And they shall have no inheritance among their brothers; Yahweh is their inheritance, as He promised them.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own inheritance, as today.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for His own treasured possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Philippians 3:14

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:13

Who rescued us from the authority of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son of His love,

2 Timothy 1:9

who 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 from all eternity,

Titus 2:14

who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good works.

1 Peter 1:2

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to the obedience of Jesus Christ and the sprinkling of His blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

1 Peter 2:5

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

1 Peter 4:11

whoever speaks, as one speaking the oracles of God; whoever serves, as one serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and might forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 1:6

and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the might forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection. Over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

Revelation 5:10

And You made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”

1 Samuel 12:22

For Yahweh will not abandon His people on account of His great name, because Yahweh has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.