Isaiah 65:15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 You shall leave your name to my chosen to use as a curse,
and the Lord God will put you to death,
but to his servants he will give a different name.(A)
Isaiah 62:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 The nations shall see your vindication
and all the kings your glory,
and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will give.(A)
Romans 9:26
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 “And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
there they shall be called children of the living God.”(A)
Zechariah 8:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 Just as you have been a cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong.”(A)
Read full chapter
Acts 11:26
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for an entire year they met with the church and taught a great many people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christians.”(A)
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 29:22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 And on account of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,”(A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 65:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob
and from Judah inheritors of my mountains;
my chosen shall inherit it,
and my servants shall settle there.(A)
1 Peter 2:9-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
10 Once you were not a people,
but now you are God’s people;
once you had not received mercy,
but now you have received mercy.(B)
Footnotes
- 2.9 Gk a people for his possession
1 Thessalonians 2:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 by hindering us from speaking to the gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath[a] has overtaken them at last.[b](A)
Read full chapter
Matthew 22:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.(A)
Read full chapter
Matthew 21:41
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
41 They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.”(A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 66:15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 For the Lord will come in fire
and his chariots in a whirlwind,[a]
to vent his anger in fury
and his rebuke in flames of fire.(A)
Footnotes
- 66.15 Q ms: MT like a whirlwind
Isaiah 65:22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat,
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.(A)
Isaiah 65:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 I will destine you to the sword,
and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter;
because, when I called, you did not answer,
when I spoke, you did not listen,
but you did what was evil in my sight
and chose what I did not delight in.(A)
Proverbs 10:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 The memory of the righteous is a blessing,
but the name of the wicked will rot.(A)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.