Deuteronomy 7:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:8

And your servant is in the midst of the people whom you have chosen, a great people so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted.

Ezra 9:2

For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons. Thus the holy seed has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands, and in this faithlessness the officials and leaders have led the way.”

Psalm 114:2

Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

Psalm 135:4

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

Psalm 50:5

“Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”

Exodus 6:7

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

Isaiah 41:8

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

Isaiah 41:9

you whom I took from the ends of the earth and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant; I have chosen you and not cast you off”;

Isaiah 6:13

Even if a tenth part remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains standing when it is felled.” (The holy seed is its stump.)

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.”

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was holy to the Lord, the first fruits of his harvest. All who ate of it were held guilty; disaster came upon them, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:5

and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: On the day when I chose Israel, I swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob—making myself known to them in the land of Egypt—I swore to them, saying, “I am the Lord your God.”

Leviticus 20:24

But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God; I have separated you from the peoples.’

Leviticus 20:26

You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples to be mine.

Amos 3:2

You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

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.

Acts 13:17

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.

Romans 9:4

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;

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 14:21

“You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to aliens residing in your towns for them 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 kid in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 26:18

Today the Lord has obtained your agreement: to be his treasured people, as he promised you, and to keep all his commandments;

Deuteronomy 26:19

for him to set you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in fame and in honor; and for you to be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.”

Deuteronomy 28:9

The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Indeed, O favorite among peoples, all his holy ones were in your charge; they marched at your heels, accepted direction from you.

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 4:37

And because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them. He brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,

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 2:9

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.

2 Peter 2:5

and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial and to keep the unrighteous until the day of judgment, when they will be punished

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.