1 Peter 2:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthoode, an holy nation, a people set at libertie, that yee shoulde shewe foorth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenesse into his marueilous light,

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  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore if ye wil heare my voyce in deede, and keepe my couenant, then ye shalbe my chiefe treasure aboue all people, though all the earth be mine. 6 Yee shall be vnto mee also a kingdome of Priestes, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speake vnto the children of Israel.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, the Lorde thy God hath chosen thee, to be a precious people vnto himselfe, aboue all people that are vpon the earth.
  • Isa 61:6 : 6 But ye shall be named the Priestes of the Lord, and men shall say vnto you, The ministers of our God, Ye shall eate the riches of the Gentiles, and shalbe exalted with their glorie.
  • Rev 1:6 : 6 And made vs Kings and Priests vnto God euen his Father, to him I say be glory, and dominion for euermore, Amen.
  • Rev 5:10 : 10 And hast made vs vnto our God Kings and Priests, and we shall reigne on the earth.
  • Deut 14:2 : 2 For thou art an holy people vnto ye Lorde thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a precious people vnto himselfe, aboue all the people that are vpon the earth.
  • Deut 10:15 : 15 Notwithstanding, the Lord set his delite in thy fathers to loue them, and did choose their seede after them, euen you aboue all people, as appeareth this day.
  • Deut 26:18-19 : 18 And the Lorde hath set thee vp this day, to be a precious people vnto him (as hee hath promised thee) and that thou shouldest keepe all his commandements, 19 And to make thee high aboue al nations (which he hath made) in praise, & in name, and in glory, & that thou shouldest be an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, as he hath said.
  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 Who hath saued vs, and called vs with an holy calling, not according to our workes, but according to his owne purpose and grace, which was giuen to vs through Christ Iesus before the world was,
  • Deut 4:20 : 20 But the Lorde hath taken you and brought you out of the yron fornace: out of Egypt to be vnto him a people and inheritance, as appeareth this day.
  • Isa 66:21 : 21 And I will take of them for Priestes, and for Leuites, saith the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 3:17 : 17 If any man destroy the Temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the Temple of God is holy, which ye are.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gaue him selfe for vs, that hee might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe, zealous of good woorkes.
  • Rev 20:6 : 6 Blessed and holy is hee, that hath part in the first resurrection: for on such the second death hath no power: but they shalbe the Priests of God and of Christ, and shall reigne with him a thousand yeere.
  • 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God ye Father vnto sanctification of ye Spirit, through obedience and sprinkeling of the blood of Iesus Christ: Grace and peace bee multiplied vnto you.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 Yee also as liuely stones, bee made a spirituall house, an holy Priesthoode to offer vp spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ.
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 To open their eyes, that they may turne from darknes to light, and from the power of Satan vnto God, that they may receiue forgiuenes of sinnes, and inheritance among them, which are sanctified by fayth in me.
  • Acts 26:28 : 28 Then Agrippa said vnto Paul, Almost thou perswadest me to become a Christian.
  • Rom 9:24 : 24 Euen vs whome hee hath called, not of of the Iewes onely, but also of the Gentiles,
  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people that walked in darkenes haue seene a great light: they that dwelled in the land of the shadowe of death, vpon them hath the light shined.
  • Isa 41:8 : 8 But thou, Israel, art my seruant, and thou Iaakob, whom I haue chosen, the seede of Abraham my friend.
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Arise, O Ierusalem: be bright, for thy light is come, and the glorie of the Lorde is risen vpon thee. 2 For beholde, darkenesse shall couer the earth, and grosse darkenesse the people: but the Lord shall arise vpon thee, and his glory shall be seene vpon thee. 3 And the Gentiles shall walke in thy light, and Kings at the brightnesse of thy rising vp.
  • Isa 44:1 : 1 Yet nowe heare, O Iaakob my seruant, and Israel, whom I haue chosen.
  • Ps 106:5 : 5 That I may see the felicitie of thy chosen, and reioyce in the ioy of thy people, and glorie with thine inheritance.
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To giue light to them that sit in darknes, and in the shadow of death, & to guide our feete into the way of peace.
  • John 17:19 : 19 And for their sakes sanctifie I my selfe, that they also may bee sanctified through the trueth.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Take heede therefore vnto your selues, and to all the flocke, whereof the holy Ghost hath made you Ouerseers, to feede the Church of God, which hee hath purchased with that his owne blood.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people which sate in darkenes, sawe great light: and to them which sate in the region, and shadowe of death, light is risen vp.
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If any man speake, let him speake as the wordes of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the abilitie which God ministreth, that God in al things may be glorified through Iesus Christ, to whome is prayse and dominion for euer, and euer, Amen.
  • Matt 5:16 : 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good workes, and glorifie your Father which is in heauen.
  • Eph 5:8-9 : 8 For ye were once darkenesse, but are nowe light in the Lord: walke as children of light, 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in al goodnes, and righteousnes, and trueth) 10 Approuing that which is pleasing to the Lorde. 11 And haue no fellowship with ye vnfruitfull works of darknes, but euen reproue them rather.
  • Phil 3:14 : 14 And followe hard toward the marke, for the prise of the hie calling of God in Christ Iesus.
  • Col 1:13 : 13 Who hath deliuered vs from the power of darkenesse, and hath translated vs into the kingdome of his deare Sonne,
  • Isa 43:20-21 : 20 The wilde beastes shall honour mee, the dragons and the ostriches, because I gaue water in the desert, and floods in the wildernesse to giue drinke to my people, euen to mine elect. 21 This people haue I formed for my selfe: they shall shewe foorth my praise.
  • Isa 26:2 : 2 Open ye the gates that the righteous nation, which keepeth the trueth, may enter in.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blinde by a way, that they knewe not, and lead them by paths that they haue not knowen: I will make darkenesse light before them, and crooked thinges straight. These thinges will I doe vnto them, and not forsake them.
  • Ps 22:30 : 30 Their seede shall serue him: it shalbe counted vnto the Lord for a generation.
  • Ps 33:12 : 12 Blessed is that nation, whose God is the Lord: euen the people that he hath chosen for his inheritance.
  • Ps 73:15 : 15 If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.
  • 1 Thess 5:4-8 : 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkenes, that that day shal come on you, as it were a thiefe. 5 Yee are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkenesse. 6 Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. 8 But let vs which are of the day, be sober, putting on the brest plate of faith and loue, and of the hope of saluation for an helmet.
  • Phil 2:15-16 : 15 That ye may be blamelesse, & pure, and the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middes of a naughtie and crooked nation, among whom yee shine as lights in the world, 16 Holding forth the worde of life, that I may reioyce in the day of Christ, that I haue not runne in vaine, neither haue laboured in vaine.
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 To the prayse of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made vs freely accepted in his beloued,
  • Eph 1:14 : 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance, for the redemption of that libertie purchased vnto the prayse of his glory.
  • Eph 3:21 : 21 Be prayse in the Church by Christ Iesus, throughout all generations for euer, Amen.

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