1 Peter 2:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

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  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 `And now, if ye really hearken to My voice, then ye have kept My covenant, and been to Me a peculiar treasure more than all the peoples, for all the earth `is' Mine; 6 and ye -- ye are to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation: these `are' the words which thou dost speak unto the sons of Israel.'
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 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.
  • Isa 61:6 : 6 And ye are called `Priests of Jehovah,' `Ministers of our God,' is said of you, The strength of nations ye consume, And in their honour ye do boast yourselves.
  • Rev 1:6 : 6 and did make us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him `is' the glory and the power to the ages of the ages! Amen.
  • Rev 5:10 : 10 and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.'
  • Deut 14:2 : 2 for a holy people `art' thou to Jehovah thy God, and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who `are' on the face of the ground.
  • Deut 10:15 : 15 only in thy fathers hath Jehovah delighted -- to love them, and He doth fix on their seed after them -- on you, out of all the peoples as `at' this day;
  • Deut 26:18-19 : 18 `And Jehovah hath caused thee to promise to-day to become His people, a peculiar treasure, as He hath spoken to thee, and to keep all His commands; 19 so as to make thee uppermost above all the nations whom He hath made for a praise, and for a name, and for beauty, and for thy being a holy people to Jehovah thy God, as He hath spoken.
  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,
  • Deut 4:20 : 20 `And you hath Jehovah taken, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him for a people -- an inheritance, as `at' this day.
  • Isa 66:21 : 21 And also of them I take for priests, For Levites, said Jehovah.
  • 1 Cor 3:17 : 17 if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
  • Rev 20:6 : 6 Happy and holy `is' he who is having part in the first rising again; over these the second death hath not authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
  • 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, to turn `them' from darkness to light, and `from' the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that `is' toward me.
  • Acts 26:28 : 28 And Agrippa said unto Paul, `In a little thou dost persuade me to become a Christian!'
  • Rom 9:24 : 24 not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,
  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people who are walking in darkness Have seen a great light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon them.
  • Isa 41:8 : 8 -- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, And the honour of Jehovah hath risen on thee. 2 For, lo, the darkness doth cover the earth, And thick darkness the peoples, And on thee rise doth Jehovah, And His honour on thee is seen. 3 And come have nations to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.
  • Isa 44:1 : 1 And now, hear, O Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have fixed on:
  • Ps 106:5 : 5 To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'
  • John 17:19 : 19 and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death -- light arose to them.'
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- `as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.
  • Matt 5:16 : 16 so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who `is' in the heavens.
  • Eph 5:8-9 : 8 for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye, 9 for the fruit of the Spirit `is' in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth, 10 proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord, 11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,
  • Phil 3:14 : 14 to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
  • Col 1:13 : 13 who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate `us' into the reign of the Son of His love,
  • Isa 43:20-21 : 20 Honour me doth the beast of the field, Dragons and daughters of an ostrich, For I have given in a wilderness waters, Floods in a desolate place, To give drink to My people -- My chosen. 21 This people I have formed for Myself, My praise they recount.
  • Isa 26:2 : 2 Open ye the gates, that enter may a righteous nation, Preserving stedfastness.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These `are' the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.
  • Ps 22:30 : 30 A seed doth serve Him, It is declared of the Lord to the generation.
  • Ps 33:12 : 12 O the happiness of the nation whose God `is' Jehovah, Of the people He did choose, For an inheritance to Him.
  • Ps 73:15 : 15 If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
  • 1 Thess 5:4-8 : 4 and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief; 5 all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness, 6 so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober, 7 for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken, 8 and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,
  • Phil 2:15-16 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world, 16 the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He did make us accepted in the beloved,
  • Eph 1:14 : 14 which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.
  • Eph 3:21 : 21 to Him `is' the glory in the assembly in Christ Jesus, to all the generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

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    19so as to make thee uppermost above all the nations whom He hath made for a praise, and for a name, and for beauty, and for thy being a holy people to Jehovah thy God, as He hath spoken.

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