1 Peter 2:9

New American Bible - revised edition

But you are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own.

Revelation 1:6

who has made us into a kingdom, priests for his God and Father, to him be glory and power forever [and ever]. Amen.

Revelation 5:10

You made them a kingdom and priests for our God, and they will reign on earth.”

Isaiah 61:6

You yourselves shall be called “Priests of the Lord,” “Ministers of our God” you shall be called. You shall eat the wealth of the nations and in their riches you will boast.

2 Timothy 1:9

He saved us and called us to a holy life, not according to our works but according to his own design and the grace bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before time began,

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own. Clean and Unclean Animals.

1 Peter 2:5

and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to deliver us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people as his own, eager to do what is good.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Yet only on your ancestors did the Lord set his heart to love them. He chose you, their descendants, from all the peoples, as it is today.

Isaiah 26:2

Open up the gates that a righteous nation may enter, one that keeps faith.

Acts 26:18

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

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over these; they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for [the] thousand years.

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people chosen as his inheritance.

Matthew 5:16

Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father. Teaching About the Law.

Deuteronomy 4:20

but you the Lord has taken and led out of that iron foundry, Egypt, that you might be his people, his heritage, as you are today.

Colossians 1:13

He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

1 Corinthians 3:17

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy.

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, in which you tend the church of God that he acquired with his own blood.

Isaiah 66:21

Some of these I will take as priests and Levites, says the Lord.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind on a way they do not know; by paths they do not know I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them, and make crooked ways straight. These are my promises: I made them, I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 41:8

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend—

Isaiah 9:2

You have brought them abundant joy and great rejoicing; They rejoice before you as people rejoice at harvest, as they exult when dividing the spoils.

Philippians 3:14

I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize of God’s upward calling, in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 44:1

Hear then, Jacob, my servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.

Matthew 4:16

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death light has arisen.”

1 Peter 1:2

in the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification by the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ: may grace and peace be yours in abundance. Blessing.

Luke 1:79

to shine on those who sit in darkness and death’s shadow, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

Psalm 106:5

That I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, rejoice in the joy of your people, and glory with your heritage.

Romans 9:24

namely, us whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles. Witness of the Prophets.

Acts 26:28

Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You will soon persuade me to play the Christian.”

1 Peter 4:11

Whoever preaches, let it be with the words of God; whoever serves, let it be with the strength that God supplies, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Trial of Persecution.

Ephesians 1:6

for the praise of the glory of his grace that he granted us in the beloved. Fulfillment Through Christ.

Psalm 73:15

Had I thought, “I will speak as they do,” I would have betrayed this generation of your children.

Psalm 22:30

All who sleep in the earth will bow low before God; All who have gone down into the dust will kneel in homage.

Ephesians 1:14

which is the first installment of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s possession, to the praise of his glory. The Church as Christ’s Body.

John 17:19

And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.

Ephesians 3:21

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

1 Samuel 12:22

For the sake of his own great name the Lord will not abandon his people, since the Lord has decided to make you his people.

Psalm 118:27

The Lord is God and has enlightened us. Join in procession with leafy branches up to the horns of the altar.

Psalm 135:4

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his treasured possession.

Isaiah 62:12

They shall be called “The Holy People,” “The Redeemed of the Lord.” And you shall be called “Cared For,” “A City Not Forsaken.”

Malachi 3:17

They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my own special possession, on the day when I take action. And I will have compassion on them, as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.

Deuteronomy 18:2

They shall have no heritage among their kindred; the Lord himself is their heritage, as he has told them.