Deuteronomy 7:6

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.

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  • Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; 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 people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • Jer 2:3 : 3 Israel [was] holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him shall be held guilty. Evil shall come on them,"' says Yahweh."
  • Deut 26:19 : 19 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
  • Deut 28:9 : 9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
  • Ps 50:5 : 5 "Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
  • Amos 3:2 : 2 "You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins."
  • 1 Cor 6:19-20 : 19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
  • Mal 3:17 : 17 They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous 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 Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

  • Deut 7:7-8
    2 verses
    86%

    7 Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

    8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

  • Deut 26:17-19
    3 verses
    82%

    17 You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice:

    18 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;

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

  • Deut 10:15
    82%

    15 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.

  • Ps 135:4
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    4 For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.

  • 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 my own possession from among all peoples; 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 You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

  • 1 Kgs 8:53
    77%

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

  • Deut 28:9
    77%

    9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.

  • Ps 33:12
    77%

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

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

    23 What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?

    24 You established for yourself your people Israel to be a people to you forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

  • 1 Pet 2:9
    76%

    9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

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

    21 What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?

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

  • Deut 4:20
    75%

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

  • Deut 18:5
    75%

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

  • Deut 4:37-38
    2 verses
    75%

    37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great 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 at this day.

  • Ps 105:6
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    6 you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

  • 1 Chr 16:13
    74%

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

  • Neh 9:7
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    7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,

  • 2 Chr 6:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 'Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince 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 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

    6 Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn't give you this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

  • Lev 20:7
    73%

    7 "'Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 7:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;

    2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall 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 me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

  • Deut 28:1
    73%

    1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth:

  • Isa 44:1
    72%

    1 Yet listen now, 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 Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

  • Isa 49:7
    72%

    7 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."

  • Deut 29:13
    72%

    13 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

  • Deut 6:15
    72%

    15 for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

  • Deut 12:26
    72%

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

  • Lev 19:2
    72%

    2 "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy.

  • Deut 27:9
    72%

    9 Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, "Keep silence, and listen, Israel: this day you have become the people of Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 4:7
    71%

    7 For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

  • Isa 41:9
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    9 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, 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 peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

  • Deut 17:14-15
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    71%

    14 When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, "I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me;"

    15 you shall surely set him king over yourselves, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one from among your brothers you shall set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

  • Jer 30:22
    71%

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

  • Deut 4:35
    70%

    35 It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.