1 Samuel 8:20
We want to be like other nations, with our own king to rule us and to lead us out to war and to fight our battles.
1 Samuel 8:5
They said: You are an old man. You set a good example for your sons. But they have not followed it. Now we want a king to be our leader like all the other nations. Choose one for us!
Exodus 33:16
If you do go with us, everyone will know that you are pleased with your people and with me. That way, we will be different from the rest of the people on earth.
Leviticus 20:24-26
I am Jehovah your God. I have promised you their land that is rich with milk and honey. I have chosen you to be different from other people.
Numbers 23:9
I see them from the top of rocky cliffs. I look at them from the hills. I see a nation that lives by itself! These are people who do not consider themselves to be like other nations.
Deuteronomy 7:6
You are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be his own special people out of all the nations of the earth.
Psalm 106:35
Instead, they intermarried with other nations. They learned to do what other nations did.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. I chose you out of the world. The world hates you because you are not of the world.
Romans 12:12
Rejoice in hope! Be patient in tribulation. Continue in prayer.
2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore come out from among them and be separate (set off) (severed from them) (excluded from them), said Jehovah. Do not touch the unclean thing and I will receive you. (Isaiah 52:11) (Jeremiah 51:45)
Philippians 3:20
However, our citizenship is in heaven. We also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:9
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God's own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.