Verse 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;

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Men dere er en utvalgt æt, et kongelig presteskap, en hellig nasjon, et folk som tilhører Gud; for at dere skal forkynne Hans dyder, som har kalt dere fra mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Men dere er et utvalgt folk, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et folk som tilhører Gud, for at dere skal kunngjøre hans underfulle gjerninger som har kalt dere ut av mørket til sitt vidunderlige lys.

• Norsk King James

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, en hellig nasjon, et folk som tilhører Gud, for at dere skal forkynne Hans pris, som har kalt dere ut av mørket og inn i sitt herlige lys:

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et folk til eiendom, for at dere skal forkynne hans storverk, han som kalte dere fra mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Men dere er en utvalgt generasjon, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et eiendommelig folk; for at dere skulle forkynde hans dyder, som kalte dere ut av mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et folk til å eie for Gud, for at dere skal forkynne hans storhet, han som kalte dere fra mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et eiendomsfolk, for at dere skal forkynne hans herlige verk, han som kalte dere fra mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Men dere er et utvalgt folk, et kongelig presteskap, en hellig nasjon, et særegent folk; for at dere skal kunne forkynne lovsangen til ham som har kalt dere ut av mørket og inn i sitt herlige lys:

• gpt4.5-preview

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et eiendomsfolk, så dere skal forkynne hans storverk som kalte dere fra mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et eiendomsfolk, så dere skal forkynne hans storverk som kalte dere fra mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et folk til eiendom, for at dere skal forkynne hans storverk, han som kalte dere fra mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et eiendomsfolk, for at dere skal forkynne hans storverk, han som kalte dere fra mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Men I ere en udvalgt Slægt, et kongeligt Præstedom, et helligt Folk, et Folk til Eiendom, at I skulle forkynde hans Dyder, som kaldte eder fra Mørket til sit underfulde Lys;

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et folk til å eie; for at dere skal forkynne Guds storverk, han som kalte dere fra mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et folk til Guds eiendom, for at dere skal forkynne hans storhet, han som kalte dere ut av mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et folk som Gud har gjort til sitt eget, for at dere skal forkynne Hans storverk, Han som kalte dere fra mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig folk, et folk som Gud eier, for at dere skal forkynne hans storhet, han som kalte dere fra mørke til sitt underfulle lys.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Men dere er en utvalgt slekt, et kongelig presteskap, et hellig nasjon, et folk til Guds eie, for at dere skal forkynne hans storverk, han som kalte dere fra mørket til sitt underfulle lys.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  But ye are a chosyn generacion a royall presthod an holy nacio and a peculiar people that ye shuld shewe the vertues of him that called you out of darknes into hys marvelous light

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But ye are that chosen generacion, that kyngly presthode, that holy nacion, that peculier people, yt ye shulde shewe the vertues of him, which hath called you out of darknesse in to his maruelous lighte:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthoode, an holy nation, a people set at libertie, that yee shoulde shewe foorth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenesse into his marueilous light,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But ye are a chosen generation, a royall priesthood, an holy nation, a peculier people: that ye should shewe foorth the vertues of hym that called you out of darknesse into his marueylous lyght.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• 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;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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:

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  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.

Referenced Verses

• 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.
• Deut 7:6 : 6 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.
• Isa 61:6 : 6 But you shall be named the Priests of the Lord; men shall call you the Ministers of our God; you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory you shall boast.
• Rev 1:6 : 6 And has made us kings and priests to God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
• Rev 5:10 : 10 And have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth.
• 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.
• Deut 10:15 : 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.
• Deut 26:18-19 : 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.
• 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
• Deut 4:20 : 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.
• Isa 66:21 : 21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, says the LORD.
• 1 Cor 3:17 : 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
• 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.
• Rev 20:6 : 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. On such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification by the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you.
• 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You also, as living stones, are being 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, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith that is in me.
• Acts 26:28 : 28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, You almost persuade me to become a Christian.
• Rom 9:24 : 24 Even us whom He has called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
• Isa 9:2 : 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.
• Isa 41:8 : 8 But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
• Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the people; but the LORD shall arise upon you, and His glory shall be seen upon you. 3 And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
• Isa 44:1 : 1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen:
• Ps 106:5 : 5 That I may see the good of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
• Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
• John 17:19 : 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
• Matt 4:16 : 16 The people which sat in darkness saw a great light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light has sprung up.
• 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if anyone serves, let him do so with the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
• Matt 5:16 : 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
• Eph 5:8-9 : 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10 Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
• Phil 3:14 : 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• Col 1:13 : 13 Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has transferred us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
• Isa 43:20-21 : 20 The beast of the field shall honor Me, the jackals and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen. 21 This people I have formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise.
• Isa 26:2 : 2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
• Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blind by a way they do not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
• Ps 22:30 : 30 A posterity shall serve Him; it will be recounted to the Lord for a generation.
• Ps 33:12 : 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.
• Ps 73:15 : 15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would offend against the generation of Your children.
• 1 Thess 5:4-8 : 4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
• Phil 2:15-16 : 15 That you may be blameless and harmless, children of God, without fault, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor labored in vain.
• Eph 1:6 : 6 To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.
• Eph 1:14 : 14 Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
• Eph 3:21 : 21 To Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.