1 Peter 2:9

Modern King James Version

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Cross References

Psalm 106:5

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

Psalm 118:27

God is Jehovah, who gives light to us. Tie the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.

Psalm 135:4

For Jehovah has chosen Jacob to Himself, and Israel for His peculiar treasure.

Psalm 22:30

A seed shall serve Him; it shall be spoken of Jehovah to the coming generation.

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah; the people He has chosen for His inheritance.

Psalm 73:15

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would deceive a generation of Your sons.

Isaiah 26:2

Open the gates, and the righteous nation shall enter in, keeping faithfulness.

Isaiah 41:8

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

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way they knew not; I will lead them in paths they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. I will do these things to them, and not forsake them.

Isaiah 44:1

Yet now hear, O Jacob My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen;

Isaiah 61:6

But you will be named the priests of Jehovah; it will be said of you, Ministers of our God; you will eat the riches of the nations, and you will revel in their glory.

Isaiah 62:12

And they will call them, The Holy People, The Redeemed of Jehovah; and you will be called, Sought Out, a city not forsaken.

Isaiah 66:21

And I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites, says Jehovah.

Isaiah 9:2

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

Malachi 3:17

And they shall be Mine, says Jehovah of Hosts, for the day that I will make up My treasure. And I will pity them as a man has pity on his son who serves him.

Matthew 4:16

The people who sat in darkness saw a great Light; and Light has sprung up to those who sat in the region and shadow of death."

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

And I sanctify Myself for their sakes, so that they also might be sanctified in truth.

Acts 20:28

Therefore take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He has purchased with His own blood.

Acts 26:18

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

Acts 26:28

And Agrippa said to Paul, Do you persuade me to be a Christian in but a little?

Romans 9:24

whom He also called, not only us, of Jews, but also of the nations?

1 Corinthians 3:17

If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

Ephesians 1:14

who is the earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He has made us accepted in the One having been loved.

Ephesians 3:21

to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, forever. Amen.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Only Jehovah had a delight in your fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, you above all people, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 14:2

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

Deuteronomy 18:2

Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brothers. Jehovah is their inheritance, as He has said to them.

Deuteronomy 4:20

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

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

Philippians 3:14

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:13

For He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son;

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 us in Christ Jesus before the eternal times.

Titus 2:14

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

1 Peter 1:2

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

1 Peter 2:5

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

1 Peter 4:11

If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as of the ability which God gives, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory, and the might forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 1:6

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

Revelation 20:6

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

Revelation 5:10

And You made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign over the earth.

1 Samuel 12:22

For Jehovah will not forsake His people for His great name's sake, because it has pleased Jehovah to make you His people.