20 Then we will be like all the other nations,(A) with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”

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20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

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They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king(A) to lead[a](B) us, such as all the other nations(C) have.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 8:5 Traditionally judge; also in verses 6 and 20

And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

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But you are a chosen people,(A) a royal priesthood,(B) a holy nation,(C) God’s special possession,(D) that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.(E)

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But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

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20 But our citizenship(A) is in heaven.(B) And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,(C)

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20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

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17 Therefore,

“Come out from them(A)
    and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
    and I will receive you.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:17 Isaiah 52:11; Ezek. 20:34,41

17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

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12 Be joyful in hope,(A) patient in affliction,(B) faithful in prayer.(C)

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12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

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19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you(A) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.(B)

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19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

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35 but they mingled(A) with the nations
    and adopted their customs.

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35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

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For you are a people holy(A) to the Lord your God.(B) The Lord your God has chosen(C) you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.(D)

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For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

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From the rocky peaks I see them,
    from the heights I view them.(A)
I see a people who live apart
    and do not consider themselves one of the nations.(B)

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For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

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24 But I said to you, “You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.”(A) I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the nations.(B)

25 “‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds.(C) Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you. 26 You are to be holy to me(D) because I, the Lord, am holy,(E) and I have set you apart from the nations(F) to be my own.

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24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people.

25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

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16 How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us?(A) What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”(B)

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16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

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