Exodus 19:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Now, if you obey me completely and keep my covenant, you will be my treasured possession among all peoples, though all the earth is mine.

Cross References

Genesis 17:9

God said to Abraham: For your part, you and your descendants after you must keep my covenant throughout the ages.

1 Kings 8:53

For you have set them apart from all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, as you declared through Moses your servant when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, Lord my God.”

1 Chronicles 17:22

You made your people Israel your own forever, and you, Lord, became their God.

Job 41:11

Out of his mouth go forth torches; sparks of fire leap forth.

Job 41:3

Whoever has assailed me, I will pay back— Everything under the heavens is mine.

Psalm 135:4

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

Psalm 24:1

A psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s and all it holds, the world and those who dwell in it.

Psalm 25:10

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth toward those who honor his covenant and decrees.

Exodus 15:26

He said: If you listen closely to the voice of the Lord, your God, and do what is right in his eyes: if you heed his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not afflict you with any of the diseases with which I afflicted the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.

Exodus 23:22

If you obey him and carry out all I tell you, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

Exodus 24:7

Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, “All that the Lord has said, we will hear and do.”

Exodus 34:9

Then he said, “If I find favor with you, Lord, please, Lord, come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and claim us as your own.” Religious Laws.

Exodus 6:7

I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God; and you will know that I, the Lord, am your God who has freed you from the burdens of the Egyptians

Exodus 8:22

But Moses replied, “It is not right to do so, for what we sacrifice to the Lord, our God, is abhorrent to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what is abhorrent to the Egyptians before their very eyes, will they not stone us?

Exodus 9:29

Moses replied to him, “As soon as I leave the city I will extend my hands to the Lord; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail so that you may know that the earth belongs to the Lord.

Song of Solomon 8:12

My vineyard is at my own disposal; the thousand pieces are for you, Solomon, and two hundred for the caretakers of its fruit.

Isaiah 1:19

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

Isaiah 41:8

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

Isaiah 43:1

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

Isaiah 56:4

For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, who choose what pleases me, and who hold fast to my covenant,

Jeremiah 10:16

Jacob’s portion is nothing like them: for he is the maker of everything! Israel is his very own tribe, Lord of hosts is his name.

Jeremiah 13:11

For, as the loincloth clings to a man’s loins, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me—oracle of the Lord—to be my people, my fame, my praise, my glory. But they did not listen. The Broken Wineflask.

Jeremiah 7:23

This rather is what I commanded them: Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk exactly in the way I command you, so that you may prosper.

Ezekiel 16:8

I passed by you again and saw that you were now old enough for love. So I spread the corner of my cloak over you to cover your nakedness; I swore an oath to you and entered into covenant with you—oracle of the Lord God—and you became mine.

Leviticus 20:24

But to you I have said: You shall take possession of their land. I am giving it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I, the Lord, am your God, who have set you apart from other peoples.

Amos 3:2

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

Amos 6:1

Woe to those who are complacent in Zion, secure on the mount of Samaria, Leaders of the first among nations, to whom the people of Israel turn.

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.

1 Corinthians 10:26

for “the earth and its fullness are the Lord’s.”

1 Corinthians 10:28

But if someone says to you, “This was offered in sacrifice,” do not eat it on account of the one who called attention to it and on account of conscience;

Deuteronomy 10:14

Look, the heavens, even the highest heavens, belong to the Lord, your God, as well as the earth and everything on it.

Deuteronomy 11:27

a blessing for obeying the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I give you today;

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.

Deuteronomy 14:21

You shall not eat the carcass of any animal that has died of itself; but you may give it to a resident alien within your gates to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Tithes.

Deuteronomy 26:18

And today the Lord has accepted your agreement: you will be a people specially his own, as he promised you, you will keep all his commandments,

Deuteronomy 26:19

and he will set you high in praise and renown and glory above all nations he has made, and you will be a people holy to the Lord, your God, as he promised.

Deuteronomy 28:1

Now, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord, your God, carefully observing all his commandments which I give you today, 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, as he swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord, your God, and walk in his ways.

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.

Deuteronomy 5:2

The Lord, our God, made a covenant with us at Horeb;

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.

Deuteronomy 9:29

They are your people and your heritage, whom you have brought out by your great power and with your outstretched arm.

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.

Hebrews 11:8

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; he went out, not knowing where he was to go.

Hebrews 8:9

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt; for they did not stand by my covenant and I ignored them, says the Lord.

Joshua 24:24

Then the people promised Joshua, “We will serve the Lord, our God, and will listen to his voice.”

1 Peter 2:9

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.

1 Samuel 15:22

But Samuel said: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to the Lord’s command? Obedience is better than sacrifice, to listen, better than the fat of rams.