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

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

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

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

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of your children.

But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the descendant of Abraham my friend.

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

A royal

Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

But you shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: you shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall you boast yourselves.

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

And has made us a kingdom and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

And have made us unto our God a kingdom 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 power, but they shall be priests of God and of 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 a people of inheritance, as you are this day.

For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

And the LORD has declared you this day to be his peculiar people, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until 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 for his own, zealous of good works.

Shew

If any man speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man ministers, let him do it as of the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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

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

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

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 church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;

General references

And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, 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 the LORD your God.

For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon 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.

To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures forever.

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

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

And said unto me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

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

Neither shall the priests, the Levites, lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn grain offerings, and to sacrifice continually.

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