1 Peter 2:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Cross References

Psalm 106:5

that we may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, that we may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that we may glory in your heritage.

Psalm 118:27

The Lord is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar.

Psalm 135:4

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

Psalm 22:30

Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord

Psalm 33:12

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.

Psalm 73:15

If I had said, “I will talk on in this way,” I would have been untrue to the circle of your children.

Isaiah 26:2

Open the gates, so that the righteous nation that maintains faithfulness may enter in.

Isaiah 41:8

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

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; by paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 44:1

But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!

Isaiah 61:6

but you shall be called priests of the Lord; you shall be named ministers of our God; you shall enjoy the wealth of the nations, and in their riches you shall glory.

Isaiah 62:12

They shall be called, “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 as priests and as Levites, says the Lord.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined.

Malachi 3:17

They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them.

Matthew 4:16

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

Matthew 5:16

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

Luke 1:79

to shine upon those who sit in darkness and in 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 also may be sanctified in truth.

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Acts 26:28

Agrippa said to Paul, “Are you so quickly persuading me to become a Christian?”

Romans 9:24

including us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the gentiles?

1 Corinthians 3:17

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

Ephesians 1:14

this is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

Ephesians 3:21

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

Deuteronomy 10:15

yet the Lord set his heart in love on your ancestors alone and chose you, their descendants after them, out of all the peoples, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; it is you the Lord has chosen out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

Deuteronomy 18:2

but they shall have no inheritance among the other members of the community; 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 smelter, out of Egypt, to become a people of his very own possession, as you are now.

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

Philippians 3:14

I press on toward the goal, toward the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.

Colossians 1:13

He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into 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, and this grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

Titus 2:14

He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

1 Peter 1:2

who have been chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with his blood: May grace and peace be yours in abundance.

1 Peter 2:5

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.

1 Peter 4:11

Whoever speaks must do so as one speaking the very words of God; whoever serves must do so with the strength that God supplies, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 1:6

and made us a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. Over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him a thousand years.

Revelation 5:10

you have made them a kingdom and priests serving our God, and they will reign on earth.”

1 Samuel 12:22

For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.