Deuteronomy 26:3
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3 You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘Today I declare to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord swore to our ancestors to give us.’
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1 Peter 2:5
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5 like living stones let yourselves be built[a] into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.(A)
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- 2.5 Or you yourselves are being built
Hebrews 13:15
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15 Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.(A)
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Hebrews 10:21
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21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,(A)
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Hebrews 7:26
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26 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.(A)
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Hebrews 6:16-18
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16 Humans, of course, swear by someone greater than themselves, and an oath given as confirmation puts an end to all dispute among them.(A) 17 In the same way, when God desired to show even more clearly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it by an oath,(B) 18 so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.(C)
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Luke 1:72-73
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72 Thus he has shown the mercy promised to our ancestors
and has remembered his holy covenant,(A)
73 the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham,
to grant us
Psalm 105:9-10
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9 the covenant that he made with Abraham,
his sworn promise to Isaac,(A)
10 which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant,(B)
Deuteronomy 19:17
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17 then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days,(A)
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Genesis 26:3
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3 Reside in this land as an alien, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.(A)
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Genesis 17:8
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8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding, and I will be their God.”(A)
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