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, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure.

Yet on your fathers did the Lord set His affection to love them, and He chose their descendants after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day.

Posterity will serve Him;

It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

“But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of Abraham My friend,

“But now listen, O Jacob, My servant,
And Israel, whom I have chosen:

A royal

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

But you will be called the priests of the Lord;
You will be spoken of as ministers of our God.
You will eat the wealth of nations,
And in their riches you will boast.

I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites,” says the Lord.

and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to

His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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

Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

Peculiar

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as today.

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 out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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

The Lord has today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments;

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

who is

given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.

who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

Shew

Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving

by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

“The people whom I formed for Myself

Will declare My praise.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come,
And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

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

to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

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

so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you

appear as lights in the world,

General references

The priest shall then take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one 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 from the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the Lord your God.”

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

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

That men may tell of the name of the Lord in Zion
And His praise in Jerusalem,

Oh let Israel say,
“His lovingkindness is everlasting.”

Then justice will dwell in the wilderness
And righteousness will abide in the fertile field.

“The people whom I formed for Myself

Will declare My praise.

He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel,

In Whom I will show My glory.”

I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites,” says the Lord.

and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings and to prepare sacrifices continually.’”

So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.