1 Peter 2:9

New King James Version

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Cross References

Psalm 106:5

That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance.

Psalm 118:27

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

Psalm 135:4

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His special treasure.

Psalm 22:30

A posterity shall serve Him. It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,

Psalm 33:12

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

Psalm 73:15

If I had said, “I will speak thus,” Behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children.

Isaiah 26:2

Open the gates, That the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.

Isaiah 41:8

“But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The descendants of Abraham My friend.

Isaiah 42:16

I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, And crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, And not forsake them.

Isaiah 44:1

“Yet hear now, O Jacob My servant, And Israel whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 61:6

But you shall be named the priests of the Lord, They shall call you the servants of our God. You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, And in their glory you shall boast.

Isaiah 62:12

And they shall call them The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord; And you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

Isaiah 66:21

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

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness Have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them a light has shined.

Malachi 3:17

“They shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “On the day that I make them My jewels. And I will spare them As a man spares his own son who serves him.”

Matthew 4:16

The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned.”

Matthew 5:16

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Luke 1:79

To give light to 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, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

Acts 20:28

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to 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, in order to turn them 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 are sanctified by faith in Me.’

Acts 26:28

Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You almost persuade me to become a Christian.”

Romans 9:24

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

1 Corinthians 3:17

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

Ephesians 1:14

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

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

Ephesians 3:21

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

Deuteronomy 10:15

The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all 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 Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 18:2

Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance, as He said to them.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you are this day.

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 Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Philippians 3:14

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

Colossians 1:13

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

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 to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

Titus 2:14

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

1 Peter 1:2

elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

1 Peter 2:5

you also, as living stones, are being 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 him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 1:6

and has made us kings and priests to His God and 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. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

Revelation 5:10

And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.”

1 Samuel 12:22

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