Deuteronomy 7:6

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:8

And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, so numerous that they cannot be numbered or counted.

Ezra 9:2

Specifically, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves, as well as for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mingled with the people of the lands. In fact, the involvement of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this vile behavior.”

Psalm 114:2

Judah became His sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.

Psalm 135:4

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

Psalm 50:5

“Gather My faithful ones to Me, those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

Exodus 6:7

And I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Isaiah 41:8

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

Isaiah 41:9

You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from its remotest parts, and said to you, “You are My servant; I have chosen you and have not rejected you.”

Isaiah 6:13

But yet in it shall be one-tenth, and it shall return, and shall be burned, as a terebinth tree or as an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down, so the holy seed is its stump.”

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.

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel is holy to the Lord, and the firstfruits of His harvest. All who eat of it will become guilty; disaster will come upon them, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:5

And say to them: Thus says the Lord God: On the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up My hand to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up My hand to them, saying, I am the Lord your God,

Leviticus 20:24

But I have said to you: You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land that flows with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from other peoples.

Leviticus 20:26

You shall be holy unto Me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from other peoples, that you should be Mine.

Amos 3:2

You alone have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

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.

Acts 13:17

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt, and with great power He led them out of it.

Romans 9:4

who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises,

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 14:21

You must not eat of anything that dies of itself, but you may give it to the foreigner that is in your gates, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 26:18

And the Lord has affirmed today that you are His special people, just as He has promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments.

Deuteronomy 26:19

He will exalt you above all nations which He has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.

Deuteronomy 28:9

The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He swore to you, if you will keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Surely, He loved the people; all His holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; everyone receives Your words.

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 4:37

Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them and personally brought you out of Egypt with His mighty power

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 2:9

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.

2 Peter 2:5

and if He did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the Day of Judgment,

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.