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

chosen (according to the foreknowledge of God the Father) in sanctification of the Spirit, to obey and be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, the Christ, Grace and peace, be multiplied unto you.

The LORD delighted only in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you from among all the peoples, as it is this day.

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

Blessed is the people whose God is the LORD; the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

If I should say, I will speak as they do; behold, I should deny the generation of thy sons.

But thou, Israel, my slave, Jacob whom I have chosen, art the seed of Abraham my friend.

Yet now hear, O Jacob my slave and Israel, whom I have chosen:

A royal

Now therefore, if ye will give ear to hearken unto my voice and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a special treasure unto me above all peoples; for all the earth is mine.

But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD; men shall call you the Ministers of our God; ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and with their glory ye shall be lifted up.

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

and has made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

and hast made us unto our God kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth.

Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection; on such the second death has no authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Peculiar

But the LORD has taken you and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him the people of his inheritance, as ye are this day.

For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God; the LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, different from all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD has chosen thee to be a unique people unto himself from among all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

And the LORD has lifted thee up this day to be his unique people, as he has promised thee, and that thou should keep all his commandments,

Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as bishops to feed the congregation of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

which is the earnest of our inheritance unto the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a people of his own, zealous of good works.

Shew

If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if anyone ministers, let them do it according to the virtue which God gives, that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus, the Christ, unto whom is glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

This people I have formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has made us accepted in the beloved;

unto him be glory in the congregation by Christ Jesus throughout all generations of the ages of the ages. Amen.

that ye may be blameless and innocent, children of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world,

General references

And the priest shall take some of the blood of the expiation for the guilt, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of the one that is to be purified and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great 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 your God.

For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD has chosen thee to be a unique people unto himself from among all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

that we also may be like all the Gentiles and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.

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

Let Israel now say that his mercy endures for ever.

Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall remain in the fruitful field.

This people I have formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.

And he said unto me, Thou art my slave, O Israel; in thee I will glory.

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

neither shall the priests the Levites lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings and to kindle grain offerings and to do sacrifice continually.

So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that has mercy.