1 Samuel 8:20
We, too, will be like all the nations! Our king will govern us and go out before us to fight our battles."
1 Samuel 8:5
They told him, "Look, you're old, and your sons don't follow your example. So appoint a king to govern us like all the other nations."
Exodus 33:16
Otherwise, how shall it be known that your people and I have received favor from you, unless you go with us and that we, your people and I, are distinguished from all the people on the surface of the earth?"
Leviticus 20:24-26
But I've promised you that you'll inherit the land that I'm about to give you as your permanent possession a land flowing with milk and honey.
Numbers 23:9
I saw them from the top of the rocks. I watched them from the hills. Truly this is a people that lives by itself and doesn't matter among the nations.
Deuteronomy 7:6
because you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God chose you to be his people, his treasured possession from all the nations on the face of the earth."
Psalm 106:35
Instead, they mingled among the nations and learned their ways.
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in trouble, and persistent in prayer.
2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore, "Get away from them and separate yourselves from them," declares the Lord, "and don't touch anything unclean. Then I will welcome you.
Philippians 3:20
Our citizenship, however, is in heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.