² for you are a people holy^(A) to the Lord your God.^(B) Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.^(C)

⁶ 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)

²⁶ You are to be holy to me^(A) because I, the Lord, am holy,^(B) and I have set you apart from the nations^(C) to be my own.

⁵ Now if you obey me fully^(A) and keep my covenant,^(B) then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.^(C) Although the whole earth^(D) is mine, ⁶ you^[a] will be for me a kingdom of priests^(E) and a holy nation.’^(F) These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

⁹ 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)

¹⁸ And the Lord has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession^(A) as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands. ¹⁹ He has declared that he will set you in praise,^(B) fame and honor high above all the nations^(C) he has made and that you will be a people holy^(D) to the Lord your God, as he promised.

² “Speak to the entire assembly of Israel^(A) and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the Lord your God,^(B) am holy.^(C)

¹⁴ who gave himself for us^(A) to redeem us from all wickedness^(B) and to purify^(C) for himself a people that are his very own,^(D) eager to do what is good.^(E)

⁹ The Lord will establish you as his holy people,^(A) as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands^(B) of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him.