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 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 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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Isaiah 62:3-4
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3 You shall be a beautiful crown in the hand of the Lord
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.(A)
4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken,
and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,
but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her
and your land Married,
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land shall be married.(B)
2 Corinthians 6:18
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18 and I will be your father,
and you shall be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”(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
Jeremiah 32:38-39
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38 They shall be my people, and I will be their God. 39 I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for all time, for their own good and the good of their children after them.(A)
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Deuteronomy 26:17-18
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17 Today you have obtained the Lord’s agreement: to be your God; and for you to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and to obey him. 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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Romans 8:32
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32 He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how will he not with him also give us everything else?
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Malachi 1:6
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Corruption of the Priesthood
6 A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is the honor due me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, “How have we despised your name?”(A)
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Ezekiel 36:27-28
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27 I will put my spirit within you and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.(A) 28 Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.(B)
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Jeremiah 31:33
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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.(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)
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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Revelation 20:12-15
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12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, the book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works, as recorded in the books.(A) 13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and all were judged according to what they had done.(B) 14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire,(C) 15 and anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
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1 Peter 1:13-16
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A Call to Holy Living
13 Therefore prepare your minds for action;[a] discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed.(A) 14 Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance. 15 Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct,(B) 16 for it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”(C)
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- 1.13 Gk gird up the loins of your mind
1 Corinthians 6:20
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20 For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.(A)
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1 Corinthians 3:22-23
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22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, 23 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.(A)
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John 10:27-30
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27 My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.(A) 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.(B) 29 My Father, in regard to what he has given me, is greater than all,[a] and no one can snatch them out of the Father’s hand.(C) 30 The Father and I are one.”
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Matthew 25:34
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34 Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world,(A)
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2 Thessalonians 1:7-10
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7 and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels(A) 8 in a fiery flame, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.(B) 9 These will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,(C) 10 when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at on that day among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
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Ezekiel 16:8
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8 I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.(A)
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Jeremiah 31:20
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20 Is Ephraim my dear son?
Is he the child in whom I delight?
As often as I speak against him,
I still remember him.
Therefore I am deeply moved for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,
says the Lord.(A)
Isaiah 26:20-21
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20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until the wrath is past.(A)
21 For the Lord comes out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
the earth will disclose the blood shed on it
and will no longer cover its slain.(B)
Nehemiah 13:22
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22 And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.(A)
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