Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was consecrated to the LORD, she was the first fruits of his produce. All who devoured her became guilty and disaster came on them," declares the LORD.'"
James 1:18
In accordance with his will he made us his children by the word of truth, so that we might become the most important of his creatures.
Exodus 19:5-6
And now if you carefully obey me and keep my covenant, you are to be my special possession out of all the nations, because the whole earth belongs to me,
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."
Isaiah 41:11
"Look! All who are enraged at you will be put to shame and disgraced; those who contend with you will all die.
Jeremiah 50:7
All who find them devour them, but their enemies say, "We're not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their ancestors.'
Revelation 14:4
They have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins, and they follow the lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among humanity as the first fruits for God and the lamb.
Deuteronomy 14:2
because you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD chose to make you his precious possession from among all the nations of the earth."
Jeremiah 12:14
This is what the LORD says about all the wicked neighbors who strike out against the land I've given to my people Israel as their inheritance: "I'm about to uproot them from their land, and I'll uproot the house of Judah from among them.
Exodus 4:22-23
You are to say to Pharaoh, "This is what the LORD says: "Israel is my firstborn son.
Exodus 22:29
"You are not to hold back the fullness of your harvest and the outflow of your wine presses. You are to give to me the firstborn of your sons.
Exodus 23:16
You are to observe the Festival of Harvest, celebrating the first fruits of your work in planting the field, and the Festival of Tabernacles at the end of the year, when you gather the fruit of your work from the field.
Numbers 18:12
All the best oil, wine, grain, and first fruits that they give to the LORD are to belong to you. Everyone who is clean in your household may eat it.
Deuteronomy 26:19
so he may elevate you far above all the nations that he has made. Then you will live to the praise, fame, and glory of God, and so be a nation that is holy to the LORD your God, as he has promised."
Psalm 81:14-15
Then I would quickly subdue their enemies. I would turn against their foes.
Psalm 105:14-15
He did not allow anyone to oppress them, or any kings to reprove them.
Psalm 105:25-36
He caused them to hate his people and to deceive his servants.
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people, and I desecrated my heritage, and gave them into your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the aged you laid your yoke most heavily.
Jeremiah 30:16
In addition, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your oppressors all of them will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will become plunder, and all who spoil you will become spoil.
Joel 1:3
Pass it on to your children, and from your children to their children, and from their children to the following generation.
Joel 1:7-8
That nation laid waste my vines, and stripped bare my fig tree, discarding it. It stripped off its bark.
Amos 6:1
"Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, to those who rest on the mountain of Samaria the famous men of the nations to whom the house of Israel came!
Zechariah 1:15
I am deeply angry with the nations who are complacent, with whom I was only a little displeased but they made things worse!"
Zechariah 2:8
For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In pursuit of glory I was sent to the nations who plundered you, because whoever injures you injures the pupil of my eye.
Zechariah 12:2-4
"Look, I am making Jerusalem an unstable cup toward all of its surrounding armies when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem.
Zechariah 14:20-21
"At that time, there will be written on the bells of the horses: HOLINESS TO THE LORD
Acts 9:4-5
He dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting me?"
Romans 11:16
If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
Romans 16:5
Greet also the church in their house. Greet my dear friend Epaenetus, who was the first convert to the Messiah in Asia.
Ephesians 1:4
just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love
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.