"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;"
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A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
But *ye* [are] a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light;
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;
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;