Jeremiah 13:11
For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so have I caused to cling to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
Jeremiah 33:9
[This city] shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.
Exodus 19:5-6
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;
Psalm 81:11
But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
Isaiah 43:21
the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.
Deuteronomy 4:7
For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
Deuteronomy 26:18
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;
Deuteronomy 32:10-15
He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Psalm 135:4
For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
Psalm 147:20
He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
Isaiah 62:12
They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
Jeremiah 6:17
I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen!'
Jeremiah 7:26
yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
Jeremiah 13:10
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
Jeremiah 32:20
who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among [other] men; and made yourself a name, as in this day;
John 5:37-40
The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: