1 Peter 2:9

Revised Standard Version

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Cross References

Psalm 106:5

that I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thy 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 shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,

Psalm 33:12

Blessed 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 speak thus,” I would have been untrue to the generation of thy children.

Isaiah 26:2

Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith 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

And I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, in paths that 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 the priests of the Lord, men shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their riches you shall glory.

Isaiah 62:12

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

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light 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 a man spares his son who serves him.

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

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Luke 1:79

to give light to 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 sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.

Acts 20:28

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God which he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Acts 26:18

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

Acts 26:28

And Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time you think to make me a Christian!”

Romans 9:24

even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

1 Corinthians 3:17

If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.

Ephesians 1:14

which is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of his glorious grace which 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, for ever and ever. Amen.

Deuteronomy 10:15

yet the Lord set his heart in love upon your fathers and chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as at this day.

Deuteronomy 14:2

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

Deuteronomy 18:2

They shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own possession, as at this day.

Deuteronomy 7:6

“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, out of all the peoples that 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

He has delivered us from the dominion 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 in virtue of our works but in virtue of his own purpose and the grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus ages ago,

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

1 Peter 1:2

chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

1 Peter 2:5

and like living stones be yourselves 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, as one who utters oracles of God; whoever renders service, as one who renders it by the strength which God supplies; in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 1:6

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

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with him a thousand years.

Revelation 5:10

and hast made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall 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.