and you shall be to me a (A)kingdom of priests and (B)a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

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10 and you have made them (A)a kingdom and priests to our God,
    and they shall reign on the earth.”

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But you are (A)a chosen race, (B)a royal (C)priesthood, (D)a holy nation, (E)a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you (F)out of darkness into (G)his marvelous light.

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(A)you yourselves like living stones are being built up as (B)a spiritual house, to be (C)a holy priesthood, (D)to offer spiritual sacrifices (E)acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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and made us (A)a kingdom, (B)priests to (C)his God and Father, to him be (D)glory and (E)dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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

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(A)The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.

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12 (A)And they shall be called The Holy People,
    The Redeemed of the Lord;
(B)and you shall be called Sought Out,
    A City Not Forsaken.

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19 and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor (A)high above all nations (B)that he has made, and that you shall be (C)a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.”

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“Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, (A)You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

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44 For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and (A)be holy, for I am holy. (B)You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. 45 (C)For I am the Lord who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. (D)You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”

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A Living Sacrifice

12 (A)I appeal to you therefore, brothers,[a] by the mercies of God, (B)to present your bodies (C)as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 12:1 Or brothers and sisters
  2. Romans 12:1 Or your rational service

(A)Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such (B)the second death has no power, but they will be (C)priests of God and of Christ, and they (D)will reign with him for a thousand years.

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15 but (A)as he who called you is holy, you also be holy (B)in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, (C)“You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

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17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For (A)God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

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(A)but you shall be called the priests of the Lord;
    they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God;
(B)you shall eat the wealth of the nations,
    and in their glory you shall boast.

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26 (A)You shall be holy to me, (B)for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.

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He said,

(A)“The Lord came from Sinai
    and dawned from Seir upon us;[a]
    he shone forth from Mount Paran;
he came (B)from the ten thousands of holy ones,
    with flaming fire[b] at his right hand.
Yes, (C)he loved his people,[c]
    (D)all his holy ones were in his[d] hand;
(E)so they followed[e] in your steps,
    receiving direction from you,
when (F)Moses commanded us a law,
    as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:2 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew them
  2. Deuteronomy 33:2 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  3. Deuteronomy 33:3 Septuagint; Hebrew peoples
  4. Deuteronomy 33:3 Hebrew your
  5. Deuteronomy 33:3 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

21 (A)“You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For (B)you are a people holy to the Lord your God.

(C)“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

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23 but he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not (A)profane my sanctuaries,[a] (B)for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.”

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 21:23 Or my holy precincts

(A)They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman (B)divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God. You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for (C)I, the Lord, who sanctify you, (D)am holy.

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24 But (A)I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land (B)flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, (C)who has separated you from the peoples.

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27 I put you under oath before the Lord to have (A)this letter read to all the brothers.

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