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Exodus 19:5-6
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
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Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Revelation 1:6
and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father— to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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Revelation 5:10
and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”
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Isaiah 61:6
But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.
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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, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
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Deuteronomy 26:18-19
Yahweh has declared today that you are a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments.He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
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Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Ephesians 5:8-11
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
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1 Peter 2 5
You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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Deuteronomy 10:15
Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
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Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
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Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
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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 remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
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Isaiah 26:2
Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.
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Deuteronomy 4:20
But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
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Isaiah 60:1-3
“ Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
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Isaiah 41:8
“ But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
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Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
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Matthew 4:16
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
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Psalms 106:5
that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
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Psalms 33:12
Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
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Isaiah 66:21
Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.
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1 Thessalonians 5 4-1 Thessalonians 5 8
But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
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1 Corinthians 3 17
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
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Isaiah 42:16
I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
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Acts 20:28
Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
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Isaiah 9:2
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.
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Colossians 1:13
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,
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Luke 1:79
to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
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Acts 26:28
Agrippa said to Paul,“ With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”
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1 Peter 1 2
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
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Isaiah 44:1
Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.
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1 Peter 4 11
If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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Ephesians 1:6
to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
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Philippians 2:15-16
that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
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Romans 9:24
us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
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John 17:19
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
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Philippians 3:14
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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Ephesians 3:21
to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
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Isaiah 43:20-21
The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
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Psalms 22:30
Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
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Psalms 73:15
If I had said,“ I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
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Ephesians 1:14
who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.