2 sFor you are a people tholy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, uout of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Read in Context
Related Verses
Exodus 19:5–6
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
Deuteronomy 14:21
“You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God.
“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Deuteronomy 26:19
and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised.”
Deuteronomy 28:9
The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.
Isaiah 62:12
And they shall be called The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the LORD;
and you shall be called Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.
Isaiah 63:18
Your holy people held possession for a little while;
our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
Daniel 12:7
And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Kings 8:53
For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, as you declared through Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.”
Amos 3:2
“You only have I known
of all the families of the earth;
therefore I will punish you
for all your iniquities.
Download the Free ESV Bible App
Go deeper into God’s Word with the ESV Bible app, featuring
interactive reading plans, personal bookmarks and notes, streaming
audio, powerful search tools, a free study Bible, and more.
Available for:
iOS
Android