Deuteronomy 7:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 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.
  • Jer 2:3 : 3 Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.
  • Deut 26:19 : 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.
  • Deut 28:9 : 9 The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.
  • Ps 50:5 : 5 Let my saints come together to me; those who have made an agreement with me by offerings.
  • Amos 3:2 : 2 You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.
  • 1 Cor 6:19-20 : 19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves; 20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
  • Mal 3:17 : 17 And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 14:2
    94%

    2For 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 7:7-8
    2 verses
    86%

    7The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

    8But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

  • Deut 26:17-19
    3 verses
    82%

    17Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice:

    18And 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;

    19And 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.

  • Deut 10:15
    82%

    15But 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.

  • Ps 135:4
    79%

    4For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.

  • Exod 19:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5If 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:

    6And 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.

  • Lev 20:26
    77%

    26And 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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:53
    77%

    53For you made them separate from all the peoples of the earth, to be your heritage, as you said by Moses your servant, when you took our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

  • Deut 28:9
    77%

    9The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.

  • Ps 33:12
    77%

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

  • 2 Sam 7:23-24
    2 verses
    76%

    23And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?

    24But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.

  • 1 Pet 2:9
    76%

    9But 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.

  • 1 Chr 17:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, making his name great and to be feared, driving out the nations from before your people whom you made free and took out of Egypt?

    22For your people Israel you made yours for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.

  • Deut 4:20
    75%

    20But 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.

  • Deut 18:5
    75%

    5For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.

  • Deut 4:37-38
    2 verses
    75%

    37And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;

    38Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

  • Ps 105:6
    74%

    6O you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.

  • 1 Chr 16:13
    74%

    13O you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.

  • Neh 9:7
    74%

    7You are the Lord, the God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;

  • 2 Chr 6:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;

    6But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

  • Deut 9:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    6Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

  • Lev 20:7
    73%

    7So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 7:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;

    2And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

  • Exod 6:7
    73%

    7And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

  • Deut 28:1
    73%

    1Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:

  • Isa 44:1
    72%

    1And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself:

  • Lev 20:24
    72%

    24But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples.

  • Isa 49:7
    72%

    7The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.

  • Deut 29:13
    72%

    13And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 6:15
    72%

    15For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.

  • Deut 12:26
    72%

    26But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord:

  • Lev 19:2
    72%

    2Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

  • Deut 27:9
    72%

    9Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, said to all Israel, Be quiet and give ear, O Israel; today you have become the people of the Lord your God.

  • Deut 4:7
    71%

    7For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?

  • Isa 41:9
    71%

    9You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and sent for from its farthest parts, saying to you, You are my servant, whom I have taken for myself, and whom I have not given up:

  • Deut 7:14
    71%

    14You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.

  • Deut 17:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;

    15Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.

  • Jer 30:22
    71%

    22And you will be my people, and I will be your God.

  • Deut 4:35
    70%

    35All this he let you see, so that you might be certain that the Lord is God and there is no other.