1 Peter 2:9-12
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But you are z a chosen race, a a royal b priesthood, c a holy nation, d a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you e out of darkness into f his marvelous light.
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g Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Beloved, I urge you h as sojourners and exiles i to abstain from the passions of the flesh, j which wage war against your soul.
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k Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, l they may see your good deeds and glorify God on m the day of visitation.
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Deuteronomy 10:15
Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.
Isaiah 43:20
The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people.
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Exodus 19:6
And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.
Revelation 1:6
And made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 5:10
And you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.
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Isaiah 61:6
But you shall be called the priests of the Lord ; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.
Isaiah 66:21
And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Isaiah 43:21
The people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.
Malachi 3:17
They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
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Isaiah 42:16
And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.
Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.
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Psalms 36:9
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.
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Hosea 1:6
She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, "Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
Hosea 1:9 - 10
And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
Hosea 2:23
And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.'
Romans 9:25 - 26
As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'
Romans 10:19
But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.
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Leviticus 25:23
The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.
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Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
Galatians 5:24
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
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James 4:1
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
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1 Peter 3:16
Having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
2 Corinthians 8:21
For we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight but also in the sight of man.
Philippians 2:15
That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.
Titus 2:8
And sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
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Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
2 Corinthians 9:13
By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission flowing from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others.
Galatians 1:24
And they glorified God because of me.
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Isaiah 10:3
What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?
Luke 19:44
And tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.
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