1 Peter 2:9

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 106:5

that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that I may glory with Your inheritance.

Psalm 118:27

The Lord is God, and He has given us light; bind the sacrifice with cords, to the horns of the altar.

Psalm 135:4

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His own possession.

Psalm 22:30

Their descendants will serve Him; the next generation will be told about the Lord;

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom He has chosen as His inheritance.

Psalm 73:15

If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children.

Isaiah 26:2

Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, the one who remains faithful.

Isaiah 41:8

But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend.

Isaiah 42:16

I will bring the blind by a way that they did not know; I will lead them in paths that they have not known. I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight. These things I will do for them and not forsake them.

Isaiah 44:1

Yet now listen, O Jacob, My servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 61:6

But you shall be named the priests of the Lord; men shall call you the ministers of our God. You shall eat the riches of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.

Isaiah 62:12

They shall call them The Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought Out, a City Not Forsaken.

Isaiah 66:21

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

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them the light has shined.

Malachi 3:17

They shall be Mine, says the Lord of Hosts, on the day when I prepare My special possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

Matthew 4:16

The people who sat in darkness saw great light. And on those who sat in the land of the shadow of death, light has dawned.”

Matthew 5:16

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

Luke 1:79

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

John 17:19

For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

Acts 20:28

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to the entire flock, over 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 and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’

Acts 26:28

Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You almost persuade me to be a Christian.”

Romans 9:24

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

1 Corinthians 3:17

If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy. And you are His temple.

Ephesians 1:14

who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased 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 throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Deuteronomy 10:15

The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, even you above all people, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, treasured above all the nations that are on the earth.

Deuteronomy 18:2

They will have no inheritance among their brothers. The Lord is their inheritance, just as He has said to them.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him a people of inheritance, as you are today.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be His special people, treasured above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Philippians 3:14

I press toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:13

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dear Son,

2 Timothy 1:9

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not by our works, but by His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

Titus 2:14

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

1 Peter 1:2

elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification by the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

1 Peter 2:5

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

1 Peter 4:11

If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone serves, let him serve with the strength that God supplies, so that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 1:6

and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy is he who takes part in the first resurrection. Over these the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with Him one thousand years.

Revelation 5:10

and have made us kings and priests unto our God; and we shall reign on the earth.”

1 Samuel 12:22

As befits His great name, the Lord will not abandon His people. For it has pleased the Lord to make you His people.