1 Peter 2:9

New Century Version

But you are a chosen people, royal priests, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession. You were chosen to tell about the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

Cross References

Psalm 106:5

Let me see the good things you do for your chosen people. Let me be happy along with your happy nation; let me join your own people in praising you.

Psalm 118:27

The Lord is God, and he has shown kindness to us. With branches in your hands, join the feast. Come to the corners of the altar.

Psalm 135:4

The Lord has chosen the people of Jacob for himself; he has chosen the people of Israel for his very own.

Psalm 22:30

The people in the future will serve him; they will always be told about the Lord.

Psalm 33:12

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his very own.

Psalm 73:15

God, if I had decided to talk like this, I would have let your people down.

Isaiah 26:2

Open the gates, and the good people will enter, those who follow God.

Isaiah 41:8

The Lord says, “People of Israel, you are my servants. People of Jacob, I chose you. You are from the family of my friend Abraham.

Isaiah 42:16

Then I will lead the blind along a way they never knew; I will guide them along paths they have not known. I will make the darkness become light for them, and the rough ground smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not leave my people.

Isaiah 44:1

The Lord says, “People of Jacob, you are my servants. Listen to me! People of Israel, I chose you.”

Isaiah 61:6

You will be called priests of the Lord; you will be named the servants of our God. You will have riches from all the nations on earth, and you will take pride in them.

Isaiah 62:12

His people will be called the Holy People, the Saved People of the Lord, and Jerusalem will be called the City God Wants, the City God Has Not Rejected.

Isaiah 66:21

“And I will choose even some of these people to be priests and Levites,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 9:2

Before those people lived in darkness, but now they have seen a great light. They lived in a dark land, but a light has shined on them.

Malachi 3:17

The Lord All-Powerful says, “They belong to me; on that day they will be my very own. As a parent shows mercy to his child who serves him, I will show mercy to my people.

Matthew 4:16

These people who live in darkness will see a great light. They live in a place covered with the shadows of death, but a light will shine on them.”

Matthew 5:16

In the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do and will praise your Father in heaven.

Luke 1:79

It will shine on those who live in darkness, in the shadow of death. It will guide us into the path of peace.”

John 17:19

For their sake, I am making myself ready to serve so that they can be ready for their service of the truth.

Acts 20:28

Be careful for yourselves and for all the people the Holy Spirit has given to you to oversee. You must be like shepherds to the church of God, which he bought with the death of his own son.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn away from darkness to the light, away from the power of Satan and to God. Then their sins can be forgiven, and they can have a place with those people who have been made holy by believing in me.’

Acts 26:28

King Agrippa said to Paul, “Do you think you can persuade me to become a Christian in such a short time?”

Romans 9:24

and we are those people whom God called. He called us not from the Jews only but also from those who are not Jews.

1 Corinthians 3:17

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person, because God’s temple is holy and you are that temple.

Ephesians 1:14

That Holy Spirit is the guarantee that we will receive what God promised for his people until God gives full freedom to those who are his—to bring praise to God’s glory.

Ephesians 1:6

and it brings praise to God because of his wonderful grace. God gave that grace to us freely, in Christ, the One he loves.

Ephesians 3:21

To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus for all time, forever and ever. Amen.

Deuteronomy 10:15

But the Lord cared for and loved your ancestors, and he chose you, their descendants, over all the other nations, just as it is today.

Deuteronomy 14:2

You are holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. He has chosen you from all the people on earth to be his very own.

Deuteronomy 18:2

They will not inherit any of the land like their brothers, but they will inherit the Lord himself, as he has promised them.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord brought you out of Egypt, which tested you like a furnace for melting iron, and he made you his very own people, as you are now.

Deuteronomy 7:6

You are holy people who belong to the Lord your God. He has chosen you from all the people on earth to be his very own.

Philippians 3:14

I keep trying to reach the goal and get the prize for which God called me through Christ to the life above.

Colossians 1:13

God has freed us from the power of darkness, and he brought us into the kingdom of his dear Son.

2 Timothy 1:9

saved us and made us his holy people. That was not because of anything we did ourselves but because of God’s purpose and grace. That grace was given to us through Christ Jesus before time began,

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us so he might pay the price to free us from all evil and to make us pure people who belong only to him—people who are always wanting to do good deeds.

1 Peter 1:2

God planned long ago to choose you by making you his holy people, which is the Spirit’s work. God wanted you to obey him and to be made clean by the blood of the death of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be yours more and more.

1 Peter 2:5

You also are like living stones, so let yourselves be used to build a spiritual temple—to be holy priests who offer spiritual sacrifices to God. He will accept those sacrifices through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:11

Anyone who speaks should speak words from God. Anyone who serves should serve with the strength God gives so that in everything God will be praised through Jesus Christ. Power and glory belong to him forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 1:6

He made us to be a kingdom of priests who serve God his Father. To Jesus Christ be glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy are those who share in this first raising of the dead. The second death has no power over them. They will be priests for God and for Christ and will rule with him for a thousand years.

Revelation 5:10

You made them to be a kingdom of priests for our God, and they will rule on the earth.”

1 Samuel 12:22

For his own sake, the Lord won’t leave his people. Instead, he was pleased to make you his own people.