Deuteronomy 14:2

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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.

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  • Deut 7:6 : 6 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.
  • Lev 20:26 : 26 You must be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.
  • Deut 26:18-19 : 18 And today the LORD has declared you to be his special people(as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments. 19 Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But 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.
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, 6 and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
  • Lev 11:45 : 45 for I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy.
  • Lev 19:2 : 2 “Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them,‘You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
  • Isa 62:12 : 12 They will be called,“The Holy People, the Ones Protected by the LORD.” You will be called,“Sought After, City Not Abandoned.”
  • Deut 28:9 : 9 The LORD will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  • Deut 14:21 : 21 You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
  • Ezek 21:2 : 2 “Son of man, turn toward Jerusalem and speak out against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel
  • Dan 8:24 : 24 His power will be great, but it will not be by his strength alone. He will cause terrible destruction. He will be successful in what he undertakes. He will destroy powerful people and the people of the holy ones.
  • Dan 12:7 : 7 Then I heard the man clothed in linen who was over the waters of the river as he raised both his right and left hands to the sky and made an oath by the one who lives forever:“It is for a time, times, and half a time. Then, when the power of the one who shatters the holy people has been exhausted, all these things will be finished.”
  • Isa 6:13 : 13 Even if only a tenth of the people remain in the land, it will again be destroyed, like one of the large sacred trees or an Asherah pole, when a sacred pillar on a high place is thrown down. That sacred pillar symbolizes the special chosen family.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 7:6-7
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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.

    7The Basis of Israel’s Election It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the LORD favored and chose you– for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.

  • Deut 26:17-19
    3 verses
    84%

    17Today you have declared the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

    18And today the LORD has declared you to be his special people(as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

    19Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.

  • Deut 10:15
    81%

    15However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples– as is apparent today.

  • Exod 19:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    5And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,

    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.”

  • Ps 135:4
    81%

    4Indeed, the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel to be his special possession.

  • Lev 20:26
    80%

    26You must be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.

  • 1 Pet 2:9
    80%

    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.

  • Deut 28:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9The LORD will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.

    10Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the LORD, and they will respect you.

  • Ps 33:12
    77%

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

  • 1 Chr 17:21-22
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    21And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation in the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds when you drove out nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods.

    22You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O LORD, became their God.

  • 1 Kgs 8:53
    77%

    53After all, you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, just as you, O Sovereign LORD, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

  • Deut 4:20
    76%

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

  • Lev 19:2
    75%

    2“Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them,‘You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

  • 2 Sam 7:23-24
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    75%

    23Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation on the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods.

    24You made Israel your very own people for all time. You, O LORD, became their God.

  • Lev 20:23-24
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    74%

    23You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

    24So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God who has set you apart from the other peoples.

  • Deut 18:5
    74%

    5For the LORD your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

  • Lev 20:7
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    7Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience“‘You must sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

  • 1 Chr 16:13
    74%

    13O children of Israel, God’s servant, you descendants of Jacob, God’s chosen ones!

  • Deut 28:1
    74%

    1The Covenant Blessings“If you indeed obey the LORD your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

  • Deut 29:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the LORD your God is making with you today.

    13Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 14:1
    73%

    1The Holy and the Profane You are children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.

  • Deut 12:26
    73%

    26Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the LORD will choose.

  • Deut 27:9
    73%

    9Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel:“Be quiet and pay attention, Israel. Today you have become the people of the LORD your God.

  • Jer 30:22
    73%

    22Then you will again be my people and I will be your God.

  • Num 8:14
    73%

    14And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

  • Deut 18:13
    73%

    13You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

  • Deut 4:37-38
    2 verses
    73%

    37Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

    38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

  • Deut 17:14
    72%

    14Provision for Kingship When you come to the land the LORD your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say,“I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”

  • Deut 9:6
    72%

    6Understand, therefore, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is about to give you this good land as a possession, for you are a stubborn people!

  • Lev 11:45
    72%

    45for I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy.

  • Ps 105:6
    72%

    6O children of Abraham, God’s servant, you descendants of Jacob, God’s chosen ones!

  • Isa 44:1
    72%

    1The Lord Will Renew Israel“Now, listen, Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!”

  • Deut 7:14
    72%

    14You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.

  • Deut 32:9
    71%

    9For the LORD’s allotment is his people, Jacob is his special possession.

  • Deut 12:29
    71%

    29The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

  • Deut 14:3
    71%

    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

  • Mal 3:12
    71%

    12“All nations will call you happy, for you indeed will live in a delightful land,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Lev 26:12
    71%

    12I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.

  • Exod 34:10
    71%

    10He said,“See, I am going to make a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the LORD, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you.

  • Deut 4:7
    71%

    7In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the LORD our God whenever we call on him?