Isaiah 65:15
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15 You shall leave your name to my chosen to use as a curse,
and the Lord God will put you to death,
but to his servants he will give a different name.(A)
Isaiah 62:2
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2 The nations shall see your vindication
and all the kings your glory,
and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will give.(A)
Acts 11:26
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26 and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for an entire year they met with the church and taught a great many people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christians.”(A)
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Romans 9:26
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26 “And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
there they shall be called children of the living God.”(A)
Zechariah 8:13
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13 Just as you have been a cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong.”(A)
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Jeremiah 29:22
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22 And on account of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,”(A)
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Isaiah 65:9
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9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob
and from Judah inheritors of my mountains;
my chosen shall inherit it,
and my servants shall settle there.(A)
1 Peter 2:9-10
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9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,[a] in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.(A)
10 Once you were not a people,
but now you are God’s people;
once you had not received mercy,
but now you have received mercy.(B)
Footnotes
- 2.9 Gk a people for his possession
1 Thessalonians 2:16
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16 by hindering us from speaking to the gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath[a] has overtaken them at last.[b](A)
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Matthew 22:7
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7 The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.(A)
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Matthew 21:41
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41 They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.”(A)
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Isaiah 66:15
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15 For the Lord will come in fire
and his chariots in a whirlwind,[a]
to vent his anger in fury
and his rebuke in flames of fire.(A)
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- 66.15 Q ms: MT like a whirlwind
Isaiah 65:22
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22 They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat,
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.(A)
Isaiah 65:12
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12 I will destine you to the sword,
and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter;
because, when I called, you did not answer,
when I spoke, you did not listen,
but you did what was evil in my sight
and chose what I did not delight in.(A)
Proverbs 10:7
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7 The memory of the righteous is a blessing,
but the name of the wicked will rot.(A)
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