Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 14:2 : 2 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.
  • 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.”
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Jer 2:3 : 3 Israel was set apart to the LORD; they were like the first fruits of a harvest to him. All who tried to devour them were punished; disaster came upon them,” says the LORD.
  • Deut 26:19 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Ps 50:5 : 5 He says:“Assemble my covenant people before me, those who ratified a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
  • Amos 3:2 : 2 “I have chosen you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”
  • 1 Cor 6:19-20 : 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
  • Mal 3:17 : 17 “They will belong to me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 – if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,