Deuteronomy 7:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be His treasured possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For thou art a holy{H6918} people{H5971} unto Jehovah{H3068} thy God:{H430} Jehovah{H3068} thy God{H430} hath chosen{H977} thee to be a people{H5971} for his own possession,{H5459} above all peoples{H5971} that are upon the face{H6440} of the earth.{H127}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For thou art an holy{H6918} people{H5971} unto the LORD{H3068} thy God{H430}: the LORD{H3068} thy God{H430} hath chosen{H977}{(H8804)} thee to be a special{H5459} people{H5971} unto himself, above all people{H5971} that are upon the face{H6440} of the earth{H127}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    For thou art an holy nacion vnto the Lorde thy God the Lorde thy God hath chosen the to be a seuerall people vnto him silf of all nacions that are vppon the erth.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For thou art an holy people vnto the LORDE thy God. The hath the LORDE thy God chosen, that thou shuldest be his awne peculier people, from amonge all nacions that are vpon the earth.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    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.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For thou art an holy people vnto the Lorde thy God, the Lorde thy God hath chosen thee, to be a speciall people vnto hym selfe, aboue all nations that are vpon the earth.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the earth.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    for a holy people `art' thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who `are' on the face of the ground.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

  • 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    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.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people; for all the earth is mine: 6 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.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
  • Jer 2:3 : 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, says the LORD.
  • Deut 26:19 : 19 And to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.
  • Deut 28:9 : 9 The LORD shall establish you a holy people unto Himself, as He has sworn unto you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in His ways.
  • Ps 50:5 : 5 Gather My saints together to Me; those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.
  • Amos 3:2 : 2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
  • 1 Cor 6:19-20 : 19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
  • Mal 3:17 : 17 And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 And did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 14:2
    94%

    2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

  • Deut 7:7-8
    2 verses
    86%

    7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people:

    8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

  • Deut 26:17-19
    3 verses
    82%

    17 You have declared the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to listen to his voice:

    18 And the LORD has declared you this day to be his special people, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;

    19 And to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to the LORD your God, as he has spoken.

  • Deut 10:15
    82%

    15 Only the LORD delighted in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

  • Ps 135:4
    79%

    4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, and Israel for his special treasure.

  • Exod 19:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people; for all the earth is mine:

    6 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.

  • Lev 20:26
    77%

    26 And you shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from other people, that you should be mine.

  • 1 Kgs 8:53
    77%

    53 For you separated them from among all the people of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by the hand of Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.

  • Deut 28:9
    77%

    9 The LORD shall establish you a holy people unto Himself, as He has sworn unto you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in His ways.

  • Ps 33:12
    77%

    12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.

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

    23 And what nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, to make him a name, and to do for you great and awesome things for your land, before your people, which you redeemed to yourself from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

    24 For you have confirmed to yourself your people Israel to be a people unto you forever: and you, LORD, have become their God.

  • 1 Pet 2:9
    76%

    9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

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

    21 And what one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make you a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations before your people, whom you have redeemed out of Egypt?

    22 For your people Israel you made your own people forever; and you, LORD, became their God.

  • Deut 4:20
    75%

    20 But the LORD has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as you are this day.

  • Deut 18:5
    75%

    5 For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons forever.

  • Deut 4:37-38
    2 verses
    75%

    37 And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

    38 To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

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    74%

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

  • 1 Chr 16:13
    74%

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

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    74%

    7 You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and gave him the name Abraham;

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    2 verses
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    5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

    6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

  • Deut 9:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 It is not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    6 Understand therefore, that the LORD your God does not give you this good land to possess it because of your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

  • Lev 20:7
    73%

    7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy: for I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 7:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you are going to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you;

    2 And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:

  • Exod 6:7
    73%

    7 And I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be to you a God: and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

  • Deut 28:1
    73%

    1 And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth:

  • Isa 44:1
    72%

    1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen:

  • Lev 20:24
    72%

    24 But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from other people.

  • Isa 49:7
    72%

    7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to the servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD who is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.

  • Deut 29:13
    72%

    13 That he may establish you today as a people for himself, and that he may be to you a God, as he has said to you, and as he has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

  • Deut 6:15
    72%

    15 (For the LORD your God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and destroy you from the face of the earth.

  • Deut 12:26
    72%

    26 Only the holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD shall choose:

  • Lev 19:2
    72%

    2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.

  • Deut 27:9
    72%

    9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Take heed, and listen, O Israel; today you have become the people of the LORD your God.

  • Deut 4:7
    71%

    7 For what nation is there so great, who has God so near to them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

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    71%

    9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from the chief men thereof, and said to you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.

  • Deut 7:14
    71%

    14 You shall be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

  • Deut 17:14-15
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    71%

    14 When you come to the land which the LORD your God gives you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, 'I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,'

    15 you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses: one from among your brothers you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

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    71%

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

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    70%

    35 It was shown to you, that you might know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.