1 Peter 2:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

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  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
  • Isa 61:6 : 6 But you will be named the priests of the Lord, the servants of our God: you will have the wealth of the nations for your food, and you will be clothed with their glory.
  • Rev 1:6 : 6 And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.
  • Rev 5:10 : 10 And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth.
  • Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
  • Deut 10:15 : 15 But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.
  • Deut 26:18-19 : 18 And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders; 19 And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said.
  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
  • Deut 4:20 : 20 But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.
  • Isa 66:21 : 21 And some of them will I take for priests and Levites, says the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 3:17 : 17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
  • Rev 20:6 : 6 Happy and holy is he who has a part in this first coming: over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will be ruling with him a thousand years.
  • 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
  • Acts 26:28 : 28 And Agrippa said to Paul, A little more and you will be making me a Christian.
  • Rom 9:24 : 24 Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?
  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.
  • Isa 41:8 : 8 But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you. 2 For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you. 3 And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.
  • Isa 44:1 : 1 And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself:
  • Ps 106:5 : 5 So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.
  • John 17:19 : 19 And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.
  • Matt 5:16 : 16 Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
  • Eph 5:8-9 : 8 For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light 9 (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true), 10 Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord; 11 And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
  • Phil 3:14 : 14 I go forward to the mark, even the reward of the high purpose of God in Christ Jesus.
  • Col 1:13 : 13 Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;
  • Isa 43:20-21 : 20 The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself: 21 Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.
  • Isa 26:2 : 2 Let the doors be open, so that the upright nation which keeps faith may come in.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
  • Ps 22:30 : 30 A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.
  • Ps 33:12 : 12 Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.
  • Ps 73:15 : 15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.
  • 1 Thess 5:4-8 : 4 But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief: 5 For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark. 6 So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake. 7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night; 8 But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.
  • Phil 2:15-16 : 15 So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, 16 Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
  • Eph 1:14 : 14 Which is the first-fruit of our heritage, till God gets back that which is his, to the praise of his glory.
  • Eph 3:21 : 21 To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever. So be it.

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  • Exod 19:5-6
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    5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:

    6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

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    3 If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:

    4 To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;

    5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

    6 Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

    7 And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building;

    8 And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.

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    6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

  • Eph 2:19
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    19 So then you are no longer as those who have no part or place in the kingdom of God, but you are numbered among the saints, and of the family of God,

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    15 So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

  • Deut 26:19
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    19 And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said.

  • Ps 33:12
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    12 Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

  • Ps 135:4
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    4 For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.

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    12 So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.

  • 2 Thess 2:13-14
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    13 But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

    14 And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    26 For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:

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    18 Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

    19 But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:

    20 Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,

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    20 But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

  • 1 Pet 1:2
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    2 Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.

  • Eph 1:4
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    4 Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

  • Lev 20:26
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    26 And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.

  • Eph 5:8
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    8 For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

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    4 Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;

  • Eph 2:12
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    13 O you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.

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    12 Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light;

    13 Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

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    4 Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:

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    4 And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

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    6 Among whom you in the same way have been marked out to be disciples of Jesus Christ:

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    10 Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.

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    5 Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?

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    17 For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

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    5 For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.