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Exodus 19:5-6
And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
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Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
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Revelation 1:6
and has appointed us as a kingdom, as priests serving his God and Father– to him be the glory and the power for ever and ever! Amen.
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Revelation 5:10
You have appointed them as a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”
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Isaiah 61:6
You will be called,‘ the LORD’s priests, servants of our God.’ You will enjoy the wealth of nations and boast about the riches you receive from them.
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2 Timothy 1 9
He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
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Deuteronomy 26:18-19
And today the LORD has declared you to be his special people( as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.
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Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
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Ephesians 5:8-11
for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light–for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth–trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
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1 Peter 2 5
you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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Deuteronomy 10:15
However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples– as is apparent today.
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Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is the one who takes part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
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Titus 2:14
He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
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Acts 26:18
to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
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Isaiah 26:2
Open the gates so a righteous nation can enter– one that remains trustworthy.
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Deuteronomy 4:20
You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron- smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.
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Isaiah 60:1-3
“ Arise! Shine! For your light arrives! The splendor of the LORD shines on you!For, look, darkness covers the earth and deep darkness covers the nations, but the LORD shines on you; his splendor appears over you.Nations come to your light, kings to your bright light.
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Isaiah 41:8
“ You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend,
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Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.
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Matthew 4:16
the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light,and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned.”
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Psalms 106:5
so I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, rejoice along with your nation, and boast along with the people who belong to you.
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Psalms 33:12
How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.
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Isaiah 66:21
And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
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1 Thessalonians 5 4-1 Thessalonians 5 8
But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation.
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1 Corinthians 3 17
If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.
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Isaiah 42:16
I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.
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Acts 20:28
Watch out for yourselves and for 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.
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Isaiah 9:2
( 9: 1) The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.
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Colossians 1:13
He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,
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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.”
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Acts 26:28
Agrippa said to Paul,“ In such a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?”
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1 Peter 1 2
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with Jesus Christ’s blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure!
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Isaiah 44:1
“ Now, listen, Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!”
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1 Peter 4 11
Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
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Ephesians 1:6
to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.
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Philippians 2:15-16
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the worldby holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
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Romans 9:24
even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
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John 17:19
And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.
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Philippians 3:14
with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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Ephesians 3:21
to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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Isaiah 43:20-21
The wild animals of the desert honor me, the jackals and ostriches, because I put water in the desert and streams in the wilderness, to quench the thirst of my chosen people,the people whom I formed for myself, so they might praise me.”
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Psalms 22:30
A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the sovereign Lord.
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Psalms 73:15
If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your loyal followers.
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Ephesians 1:14
who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.