Exodus 19:5
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5 Now, therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession out of all the peoples. Indeed, the whole earth is mine,(A)
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Deuteronomy 14:2
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2 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; it is you the Lord has chosen out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.(A)
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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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Deuteronomy 7:6
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6 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.(A)
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Malachi 3:17
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17 They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their children who serve them.(A)
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Exodus 15:26
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26 He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not bring upon you any of the diseases that I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you.”(A)
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Psalm 135:4
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4 For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel as his own possession.(A)
Titus 2:14
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14 He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:20
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20 But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron smelter, out of Egypt, to become a people of his very own possession, as you are now.(A)
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Deuteronomy 10:14
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14 Although heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord your God, the earth with all that is in it,(A)
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Deuteronomy 5:2
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2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.(A)
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Exodus 9:29
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29 Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord; the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s.(A)
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Psalm 24:1
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Psalm 24
Entrance into the Temple
Of David. A Psalm.
1 The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it,
the world, and those who live in it,(A)
Exodus 23:22
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22 “But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.(A)
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1 Corinthians 10:26
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26 for “the earth and its fullness are the Lord’s.”(A)
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Job 41:11
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Jeremiah 31:31-33
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A New Covenant
31 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.(A) 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.(B) 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.(C)
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Joshua 24:24
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24 The people said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and him we will obey.”(A)
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Daniel 4:34-35
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Nebuchadnezzar Praises God
34 When that period was over, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me.
I blessed the Most High
and praised and honored the one who lives forever.
For his sovereignty is an everlasting sovereignty,
and his kingdom endures from generation to generation.(A)
35 All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
and he does what he wills with the host of heaven
and the inhabitants of the earth.
There is no one who can stay his hand
or say to him, “What have you done?”(B)
Isaiah 43:1
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Restoration and Protection Promised
43 But now thus says the Lord,
he who created you, O Jacob,
he who formed you, O Israel:
Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name; you are mine.(A)
Isaiah 41:8
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8 But you, Israel, my servant,
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham, my friend;(A)
Psalm 103:17-18
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17 But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting
on those who fear him,
and his righteousness to children’s children,
18 to those who keep his covenant
and remember to do his commandments.(A)
Psalm 25:10
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10 All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,
for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.(A)
1 Kings 8:53
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53 For you have separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, just as you promised through Moses, your servant, when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Lord God.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 32:8-9
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8 When the Most High[a] apportioned the nations,
when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the gods;[b](A)
9 the Lord’s own portion was his people,
Jacob his allotted share.(B)
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