Exodus 19:6
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6 but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.”(A)
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Revelation 5:10
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10 you have made them a kingdom and priests serving[a] our God,
and they will reign[b] on earth.”(A)
1 Peter 2:9
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9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,[a] in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.(A)
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- 2.9 Gk a people for his possession
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
Revelation 1:6
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6 and made us a kingdom, priests serving[a] his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.(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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Deuteronomy 28:9
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9 The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.(A)
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Isaiah 62:12
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12 They shall be called, “The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the Lord,”
and you shall be called, “Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.”(A)
Deuteronomy 26:19
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19 for him to set you high above all nations that he has made, in praise and in fame and in honor; and for you to be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.”(A)
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Leviticus 19:2
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2 “Speak to all the congregation of the Israelites and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.(A)
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Leviticus 11:44-45
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44 For I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth.(A) 45 For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt, to be your God; you shall be holy, for I am holy.(B)
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Romans 12:1
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12 I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.(A)
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Revelation 20:6
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6 Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. Over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him a thousand years.(A)
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1 Peter 1:15-16
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15 Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct,(A) 16 for it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”(B)
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1 Corinthians 3:17
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17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
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Isaiah 61:6
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6 but you shall be called priests of the Lord;
you shall be named ministers of our God;
you shall enjoy the wealth of the nations,
and in their riches you shall glory.(A)
Leviticus 20:26
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26 You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the other peoples to be mine.(A)
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Deuteronomy 33:2-4
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2 He said,
“The Lord came from Sinai
and dawned from Seir upon us;[a]
he shone forth from Mount Paran.
With him were myriads of holy ones,[b]
at his right, a host of his own.[c](A)
3 Indeed, O favorite among[d] peoples,
all his holy ones were in your charge;
they marched at your heels,
accepted direction from you.(B)
4 Moses charged us with the law
as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.(C)
Deuteronomy 14:21
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21 “You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to aliens residing in your towns for them to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God.
“You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.(A)
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Leviticus 21:23
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23 But he shall not come near the curtain or approach the altar because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the Lord; I sanctify them.”(A)
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Leviticus 21:7-8
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7 They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband. For they are holy to their God,(A) 8 and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, I who sanctify you, am holy.
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Leviticus 20:24
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24 But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God; I have separated you from the peoples.’(A)
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1 Thessalonians 5:27
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27 I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brothers and sisters.(A)
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