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.
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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God's] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. [Exod. 19:5, 6.] American Standard Version (1901) But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Common English Bible But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people who are God’s own possession. You have become this people so that you may speak of the wonderful acts of the one who called you out of darkness into his amazing light. Catholic Public Domain Version But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, an acquired people, so that you may announce the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: |
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.
The Lord is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar!
For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.
Posterity shall serve him; men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have been untrue to the generation of thy children.
Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;
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.
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.
And they shall be called The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought out, a city not forsaken.
And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the Lord.
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.
“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.
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.”
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.
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.
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.’
And Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time you think to make me a Christian!”
even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.
which is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
to the praise of his glorious grace which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.
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.
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.
They shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.
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.
“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.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
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.
and hast made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on earth.”
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.