1 Peter 2:9

New American Standard Bible 2020

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Cross References

Psalm 106:5

So that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the joy of Your nation, That I may boast with Your inheritance.

Psalm 118:27

The Lord is God, and He has given us light; Bind the festival sacrifice to the horns of the altar with cords.

Psalm 135:4

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

Psalm 22:30

A posterity will serve Him; It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.

Psalm 33:12

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen for His own inheritance.

Psalm 73:15

¶If I had said, “I will speak this way,” Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

Isaiah 26:2

“Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful.

Isaiah 41:8

“But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, Descendant of Abraham My friend,

Isaiah 42:16

“I will lead those who are blind by a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them And uneven land into plains. These are the things I will do, And I will not leave them undone.”

Isaiah 44:1

“But now listen, Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have chosen:

Isaiah 61:6

But you will be called the priests of the Lord; You will be spoken of as ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of nations, And you will boast in their riches.

Isaiah 62:12

And they will call them, “The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord”; And you will be called, “Sought Out, A City Not Abandoned.”

Isaiah 66:21

I will also take some of them as priests and Levites,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light will shine on them.

Malachi 3:17

“And they will be Mine,” says the Lord of armies, “on the day that I prepare My own possession, and I will have compassion for them just as a man has compassion for his own son who serves him.”

Matthew 4:16

The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light, And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death, Upon them a Light dawned.”

Matthew 5:16

Your light must shine before people in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Luke 1:79

To shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace.”

John 17:19

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

Acts 20:28

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Acts 26:18

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

Acts 26:28

Agrippa replied to Paul, “In a short time you are going to persuade me to make a Christian of myself.”

Romans 9:24

namely us, whom He also called, not only from among Jews, but also from among Gentiles,

1 Corinthians 3:17

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.

Ephesians 1:14

who is a first installment of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He favored us in the Beloved.

Ephesians 3:21

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

Deuteronomy 10:15

Yet the Lord set His affection on your fathers, to love them, and He chose their descendants after them, you over all the other peoples, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 18:2

They shall not have an inheritance among their countrymen; the Lord is their inheritance, as He promised them.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people of His own possession, as today.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His personal possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Philippians 3:14

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:13

For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

2 Timothy 1:9

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was granted to us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

Titus 2:14

who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, eager for good deeds.

1 Peter 1:2

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

1 Peter 2:5

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

1 Peter 4:11

Whoever speaks is to do so as one who is speaking actual words of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 1:6

and He made us into a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 20:6

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

Revelation 5:10

You have made them into a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”

1 Samuel 12:22

For the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name, because the Lord has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.