2 Samuel 7:24
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24 And you established your people Israel for yourself to be your people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God.(A)
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1 Peter 2:10
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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.(A)
Deuteronomy 26:18
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18 Today the Lord has obtained your agreement: to be his treasured people, as he promised you, and to keep all his commandments;(A)
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John 1:12
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12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,(A)
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Jeremiah 31:33
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33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.(A)
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Isaiah 12:2
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2 Surely God is my salvation;
I will trust and will not be afraid,
for the Lord[a] is my strength and my might;
he has become my salvation.”(A)
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- 12.2 Q ms Heb mss Gk Syr Vg Tg: MT for Yah, the Lord
Psalm 48:14
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14 that this is God,
our God forever and ever.
He will be our guide forever.(A)
Genesis 17:7
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7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.(A)
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Romans 9:25-26
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25 As he also says in Hosea,
“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’ ”(A)
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.”(B)
Zechariah 13:9
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9 And I will put this third into the fire,
refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on my name,
and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘They are my people,’
and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”(A)
Hosea 1:10
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The Restoration of Israel
10 [a]Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered, and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”(A)
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- 1.10 2.1 in Heb
Jeremiah 32:38
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38 They shall be my people, and I will be their God.
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Jeremiah 31:1
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The Joyful Return of the Exiles
31 At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.(A)
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1 Chronicles 17:22
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22 And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O Lord, became their God.(A)
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2 Samuel 7:23
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23 Who is like your people, like Israel? Is there another[a] nation on earth whose God went to redeem it as a people and to make a name for himself, doing[b] great and awesome things, driving out[c] nations and their gods before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt?(A)
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Deuteronomy 27:9
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9 Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, “Keep silence and hear, O Israel! This very day you have become the people of the Lord your God.(A)
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Exodus 15:2
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2 The Lord is my strength and my might,[a]
and he has become my salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him;
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.(A)
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- 15.2 Or song
Exodus 6:7
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7 I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has freed you from the burdens of the Egyptians.(A)
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