Jeremiah 13:11
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11 For as the loincloth clings to one’s loins, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the Lord, in order that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory. But they would not listen.(A)
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Jeremiah 33:9
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9 And this city[a] shall be to me a name of joy, a praise, and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them; they shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.(A)
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- 33.9 Heb And it
Exodus 19:5-6
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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) 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.”(B)
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Isaiah 43:21
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21 the people whom I formed for myself
so that they might declare my praise.(A)
Psalm 81:11
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11 “But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.(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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John 5:37-40
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37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen his form,(A) 38 and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do not believe him whom he has sent.(B)
39 “You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is they that testify on my behalf.(C) 40 Yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
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Jeremiah 32:20
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20 You showed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt and to this day in Israel and among all humankind and have made yourself a name that continues to this very day.(A)
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Jeremiah 13:10
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10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own will and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.(A)
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Jeremiah 7:26
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26 yet they did not listen to me or pay attention, but they stiffened their necks. They did worse than their ancestors did.(A)
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Jeremiah 6:17
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17 Also I raised up sentinels for you:
“Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!”
But they said, “We will not give heed.”(A)
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)
Psalm 147:20
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20 He has not dealt thus with any other nation;
they do not know his ordinances.
Praise the Lord!(A)
Psalm 135:4
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4 For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel as his own possession.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:10-15
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10 He sustained[a] him in a desert land,
in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
guarded him as the apple of his eye.(A)
11 As an eagle stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
as it spreads its wings, takes them up,
and bears them aloft on its pinions,(B)
12 the Lord alone guided him;
no foreign god was with him.(C)
13 He set him atop the heights of the land
and fed him with[b] produce of the field;
he nursed him with honey from the crags,
with oil from flinty rock,(D)
14 curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat of lambs and rams,
Bashan bulls and goats,
together with the choicest wheat—
you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.(E)
15 Jacob ate his fill;[c]
Jeshurun grew fat and kicked.
You grew fat, bloated, and gorged!
He abandoned God who made him
and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.(F)
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 4:7
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7 For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is whenever we call to him?(A)
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