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 sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.

Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, 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, the seed of Abraham my friend,

Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.

A royal

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;

But you shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men will call you the ministers of our God: you will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their glory.

Of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites," says Yahweh.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth."

Blessed and holy is he who has 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 one thousand years.

Peculiar

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

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

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

and Yahweh 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;

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

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

Shew

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

"Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh is risen on you.

Even so, let your light 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, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

General references

The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip 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 Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yahweh your God."

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all 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 men may declare the name of Yahweh in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever.

Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.

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

Of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites," says Yahweh.

neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

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