1 Chronicles 17:22

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1 Chronicles 17:22

For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

Thy people

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Thy people

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

For you are a holy people to the LORD your God: The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

and the LORD has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;

For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people to himself.

Behold, the days come," says the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

I ask then, has God rejected his people? May it never be. For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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: