But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—fo
For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possessio
who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wea
He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He gr
And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep
for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifi
He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zeal
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them,
to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may recei
Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will b
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,
Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, a
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the chu
“And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has
“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—
I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rive
the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has d
But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.
But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you
to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your
including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkli
Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to become a Christian?”
If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength
Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.
to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.
If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.