1 Peter 2:10

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You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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  • Hos 1:9-9 : 9 Then the LORD said:“Name him‘Not My People’(Lo-Ammi), because you are not my people and I am not your God.” 10 The Restoration of Israel(2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them,“You are not my people,” it will be said to them,“You are children of the living God!”
  • Hos 2:23 : 23 Then I will plant her as my own in the land. I will have pity on‘No Pity’(Lo-Ruhamah). I will say to‘Not My People’(Lo-Ammi),‘You are my people!’ And he will say,‘You are my God!’”
  • Rom 9:25-26 : 25 As he also says in Hosea:“I will call those who were not my people,‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved,‘My beloved.’” 26 “And in the very place where it was said to them,‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called‘sons of the living God.’”
  • Rom 10:19 : 19 But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says,“I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.”
  • Rom 11:6-7 : 6 And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace. 7 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,
  • Rom 11:30 : 30 Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Remaining Unmarried With regard to the question about people who have never married, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,
  • Heb 4:16 : 16 Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.

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    9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

  • Rom 11:29-32
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    29For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

    30Just as you were formerly disobedient to God, but have now received mercy due to their disobedience,

    31so they too have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy.

    32For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all.

  • Hos 2:23
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    23Then I will plant her as my own in the land. I will have pity on‘No Pity’(Lo-Ruhamah). I will say to‘Not My People’(Lo-Ammi),‘You are my people!’ And he will say,‘You are my God!’”

  • Rom 9:23-26
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    23And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–

    24even us, whom he has called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

    25As he also says in Hosea:“I will call those who were not my people,‘My people,’ and I will call her who was unloved,‘My beloved.’”

    26“And in the very place where it was said to them,‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called‘sons of the living God.’”

  • Eph 2:11-13
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    11New Life Corporately Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh– who are called“uncircumcision” by the so-called“circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands–

    12that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

    13But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

  • Hos 1:9-10
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    9Then the LORD said:“Name him‘Not My People’(Lo-Ammi), because you are not my people and I am not your God.”

    10The Restoration of Israel(2:1) However, in the future the number of the people of Israel will be like the sand of the sea which can be neither measured nor numbered. Although it was said to them,“You are not my people,” it will be said to them,“You are children of the living God!”

  • 1 Pet 2:3-5
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    3if you have experienced the Lord’s kindness.

    4A Living Stone, a Chosen People So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

    5you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

  • Eph 2:19
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    19So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

  • Deut 14:2
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    2For 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.

  • Eph 2:4
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    4But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

  • 1 Pet 2:11
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    11Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,

  • Rom 11:1-2
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    1Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

    2God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

  • Rom 11:7
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    7What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,

  • Rom 9:16
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    16So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.

  • 1 Chr 17:22
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    22You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O LORD, became their God.

  • Jer 2:11
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    11Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!

  • Exod 19:6
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    6and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”

  • Isa 14:1
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    1The LORD will certainly have compassion on Jacob; he will again choose Israel as his special people and restore them to their land. Resident foreigners will join them and unite with the family of Jacob.

  • Jude 1:22
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    22And have mercy on those who waver;

  • Deut 7:6
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    6For 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.

  • 2 Tim 1:9
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    9He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

  • Rom 9:6
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    6It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

  • Rom 10:19
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    19But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says,“I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.”

  • Rom 9:30
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    30Israel’s Rejection Culpable What shall we say then?– that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,

  • Rom 15:10
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    10And again it says:“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”

  • Rom 9:4
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    4who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

  • 2 Cor 6:2
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    2For he says,“I heard you at the acceptable time, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Look, now is the acceptable time; look, now is the day of salvation!

  • 1 Pet 1:20
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    20He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

  • Ps 33:12
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    12How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.

  • Neh 1:10
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    10They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your mighty strength and by your powerful hand.

  • 1 Pet 2:25
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    25For you were going astray like sheep but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

  • 1 Pet 1:2-3
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    2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with Jesus Christ’s blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure!

    3New Birth to Joy and Holiness Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

  • Jer 31:1
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    1At that time I will be the God of all the clans of Israel and they will be my people. I, the LORD, affirm it!”

  • Titus 3:4
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    4But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

  • Rom 11:5
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    5So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

  • Deut 4:20
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    20You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

  • Eph 1:6
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    6to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.