Original collection
CHOSEN PEOPLE: 1 Pet 2:9-10; 1 Jn 3:1-3; OT – Jews; NT – Christians
Key KJV Scriptures:
Exodus 19:5-6; Deuteronomy 7:6-8; Galatians 3:26-29; Ephesians 2:11-22; 1 Peter 2:9-10
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
23 indexed verses · Showing 1–23. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Exodus 19:5 (KJV)
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Exodus 19:6 (KJV)
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 7:6 (KJV)
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 7:7 (KJV)
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
Deuteronomy 7:8 (KJV)
But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Galatians 3:26 (KJV)
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:27 (KJV)
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:28 (KJV)
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:29 (KJV)
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Ephesians 2:11 (KJV)
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Ephesians 2:12 (KJV)
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Ephesians 2:13 (KJV)
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:14 (KJV)
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Ephesians 2:15 (KJV)
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Ephesians 2:16 (KJV)
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Ephesians 2:17 (KJV)
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
Ephesians 2:18 (KJV)
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Ephesians 2:19 (KJV)
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Ephesians 2:20 (KJV)
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Ephesians 2:21 (KJV)
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Ephesians 2:22 (KJV)
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
1 Peter 2:9 (KJV)
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
1 Peter 2:10 (KJV)
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.