1 Peter 2:9

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1 Peter 2:9

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Summary

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

A chosen

Isaiah 44:1

A royal

Peculiar

Titus 2:14

Shew

Philippians 2:15

General references

Bible References

A chosen

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

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.

Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

"But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!

A royal

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;

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.

And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the LORD.

and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth."

Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

Peculiar

But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.

"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.

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it,to the praise of his glory.

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Shew

whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies--in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.

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

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.

to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

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

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,

General references

The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD your God."

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles."

that they may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise,

Let Israel say, "His steadfast love endures forever."

Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.

the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.

And he said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified."

And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the LORD.

and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices forever."

So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.