1 Peter 2:9

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.

Cross References (44)

  • Exodus 19:5–6 (201)

    Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—fo

  • Deuteronomy 7:6 (190)

    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

  • Revelation 1:6 (127)

    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.

  • Revelation 5:10 (110)

    You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”

  • Isaiah 61:6 (99)

    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

  • 2 Timothy 1:9 (91)

    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

  • Deuteronomy 26:18–19 (81)

    And today the LORD has proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He promised, that you are to keep

  • Deuteronomy 14:2 (69)

    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

  • Ephesians 5:8–11 (56)

    For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

  • 1 Peter 2:5 (45)

    you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifi

  • Titus 2:14 (40)

    He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zeal

  • Deuteronomy 10:15 (35)

    Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them,

  • Acts 26:18 (34)

    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

  • Isaiah 26:2 (33)

    Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.

  • Psalms 33:12 (33)

    Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!

  • Revelation 20:6 (33)

    Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will b

  • Isaiah 60:1–3 (32)

    Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.

  • Matthew 5:16 (30)

    In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

  • Colossians 1:13 (27)

    He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

  • Deuteronomy 4:20 (27)

    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

  • 1 Corinthians 3:17 (21)

    If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

  • Acts 20:28 (21)

    Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the chu

  • Isaiah 66:21 (20)

    “And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.

  • Isaiah 42:16 (19)

    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

  • Isaiah 9:2 (19)

    The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has

  • Isaiah 41:8 (18)

    “But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

  • Philippians 3:14 (16)

    I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.

  • Isaiah 43:20–21 (16)

    The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rive

  • Matthew 4:16 (15)

    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

  • Isaiah 44:1 (15)

    But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:4–8 (15)

    But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.

  • Philippians 2:15–16 (14)

    so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you

  • Luke 1:79 (13)

    to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

  • Psalms 106:5 (13)

    that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your

  • Romans 9:24 (12)

    including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

  • 1 Peter 1:2 (12)

    according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkli

  • Acts 26:28 (11)

    Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to become a Christian?”

  • 1 Peter 4:11 (10)

    If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength

  • Psalms 22:30 (10)

    Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.

  • Ephesians 1:6 (10)

    to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

  • Ephesians 3:21 (9)

    to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

  • John 17:19 (9)

    For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.

  • Psalms 73:15 (9)

    If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.

  • Ephesians 1:14 (8)

    who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.