5 Listen, my beloved brothers, ^vhas not God chosen ^wthose who are poor in the world to be ^xrich in faith and ^yheirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?

6 ^r“For you are a people ^sholy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has ^tchosen you to be ^ua people for his treasured possession, ^vout of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

18 And the Lord has declared ^ptoday that ^qyou are a people for his ^rtreasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,