Exodus 19:5

Modern English Version

Now therefore, if you will faithfully obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is Mine.

Cross References

Genesis 17:9

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

1 Kings 8:53

For You did call them out from among all the people of the earth to be Your inheritance, as You spoke by the hand of Moses Your servant when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.”

1 Chronicles 17:22

For You made Your people Israel for Yourself for a people forever, and You, O  Lord, have become their God.

Job 41:11

Who has preceded Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

Job 41:3

Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak soft words to you?

Psalm 135:4

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

Psalm 24:1

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world, and those who dwell therein.

Psalm 25:10

All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and truth, for those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

Exodus 15:26

He said, “If you diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will not afflict you with any of the diseases with which I have afflicted the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”

Exodus 23:22

But if you diligently obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

Exodus 24:7

He took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that the Lord has said we will do, and we will be obedient.”

Exodus 34:9

He said, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

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.

Exodus 8:22

“ ‘I will in that day set apart the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, in order that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

Exodus 9:29

Moses said to him, “As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the Lord. The thunder shall cease, and there shall no longer be any more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s.

Song of Solomon 8:12

My very own vineyard is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and those who tend its fruit two hundred.

Isaiah 1:19

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

Isaiah 41:8

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

Isaiah 43:1

But now, thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.

Isaiah 56:4

For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, and choose the things that please Me, and take hold of My covenant,

Jeremiah 10:16

The portion of Jacob is not like them, for He is the maker of all things, and Israel is the rod of His inheritance. The Lord of Hosts is His name.

Jeremiah 13:11

For as the waistband cleaves to the loins of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cleave to Me, says the Lord, so that they might be to Me a people for renown, and for a praise, and for a glory; but they would not listen.

Jeremiah 7:23

But this thing I commanded them, saying, “Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.”

Ezekiel 16:8

When I passed by you and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time for love. So I spread My garment over you and covered your nakedness. Indeed, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became Mine.

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.

Amos 3:2

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

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those confident on the mount of Samaria, nobles of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!

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.

1 Corinthians 10:26

for “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”

1 Corinthians 10:28

But if anyone says to you, “This was offered in sacrifice to idols,” do not eat it for the sake of him that mentioned it and for the sake of conscience, for “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”

Deuteronomy 10:14

Behold, heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it.

Deuteronomy 11:27

the blessing if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you 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 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 28:1

Now it will be, if you will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I am commanding you today, then the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

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 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 5:2

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

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.

Deuteronomy 9:29

Yet they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.”

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.

Hebrews 11:8

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he would later receive as an inheritance. He went out not knowing where he was going.

Hebrews 8:9

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I rejected them, says the Lord.

Joshua 24:24

The people said to Joshua, “It is the Lord our God we will serve, and His voice that we will obey.”

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.

1 Samuel 15:22

Samuel said, “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, a listening ear than the fat of rams.