Deuteronomy 7:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

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  • Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, 6 and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
  • Jer 2:3 : 3 Israel was set apart to the LORD; they were like the first fruits of a harvest to him. All who tried to devour them were punished; disaster came upon them,” says the LORD.
  • Deut 26:19 : 19 Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.
  • Deut 28:9 : 9 The LORD will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.
  • Ps 50:5 : 5 He says:“Assemble my covenant people before me, those who ratified a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
  • Amos 3:2 : 2 “I have chosen you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”
  • 1 Cor 6:19-20 : 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
  • Mal 3:17 : 17 “They will belong to me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,
  • 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 – if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 14:2
    94%

    2For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

  • Deut 7:7-8
    2 verses
    86%

    7The Basis of Israel’s Election It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the LORD favored and chose you– for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.

    8Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the LORD brought you out with great power, redeeming you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

  • Deut 26:17-19
    3 verses
    82%

    17Today you have declared the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

    18And today the LORD has declared you to be his special people(as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

    19Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.

  • Deut 10:15
    82%

    15However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples– as is apparent today.

  • Ps 135:4
    79%

    4Indeed, the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel to be his special possession.

  • Exod 19:5-6
    2 verses
    78%

    5And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,

    6and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”

  • Lev 20:26
    77%

    26You must be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.

  • 1 Kgs 8:53
    77%

    53After all, you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, just as you, O Sovereign LORD, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

  • Deut 28:9
    77%

    9The LORD will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.

  • Ps 33:12
    77%

    12How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.

  • 2 Sam 7:23-24
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    76%

    23Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation on the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself and to make a name for himself! You did great and awesome acts for your land, before your people whom you delivered for yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods.

    24You made Israel your very own people for all time. You, O LORD, became their God.

  • 1 Pet 2:9
    76%

    9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

  • 1 Chr 17:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21And who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation in the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for himself! You made a name for yourself by doing great and awesome deeds when you drove out nations before your people whom you had delivered from the Egyptian empire and its gods.

    22You made Israel your very own nation for all time. You, O LORD, became their God.

  • Deut 4:20
    75%

    20You, however, the LORD has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

  • Deut 18:5
    75%

    5For the LORD your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

  • Deut 4:37-38
    2 verses
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    37Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

    38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

  • Ps 105:6
    74%

    6O children of Abraham, God’s servant, you descendants of Jacob, God’s chosen ones!

  • 1 Chr 16:13
    74%

    13O children of Israel, God’s servant, you descendants of Jacob, God’s chosen ones!

  • Neh 9:7
    74%

    7“You are the LORD God who chose Abram and brought him forth from Ur of the Chaldeans. You changed his name to Abraham.

  • 2 Chr 6:5-6
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    73%

    5He told David,‘Since the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. Nor did I choose a man as leader of my people Israel.

    6But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place to live, and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

  • Deut 9:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    6Understand, therefore, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is about to give you this good land as a possession, for you are a stubborn people!

  • Lev 20:7
    73%

    7Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience“‘You must sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 7:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1The Dispossession of Nonvassals When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you– Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you–

    2and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!

  • Exod 6:7
    73%

    7I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians.

  • Deut 28:1
    73%

    1The Covenant Blessings“If you indeed obey the LORD your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

  • Isa 44:1
    72%

    1The Lord Will Renew Israel“Now, listen, Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!”

  • Lev 20:24
    72%

    24So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God who has set you apart from the other peoples.

  • Isa 49:7
    72%

    7This is what the LORD, the protector of Israel, their Holy One, says to the one who is despised and rejected by nations, a servant of rulers:“Kings will see and rise in respect, princes will bow down, because of the faithful LORD, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”

  • Deut 29:13
    72%

    13Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 6:15
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    15for the LORD your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.

  • Deut 12:26
    72%

    26Only the holy things and votive offerings that belong to you, you must pick up and take to the place the LORD will choose.

  • Lev 19:2
    72%

    2“Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them,‘You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

  • Deut 27:9
    72%

    9Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel:“Be quiet and pay attention, Israel. Today you have become the people of the LORD your God.

  • Deut 4:7
    71%

    7In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the LORD our God whenever we call on him?

  • Isa 41:9
    71%

    9you whom I am bringing back from the earth’s extremities, and have summoned from the remote regions– I told you,“You are my servant.” I have chosen you and not rejected you.

  • Deut 7:14
    71%

    14You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.

  • Deut 17:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14Provision for Kingship When you come to the land the LORD your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say,“I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”

    15you must select without fail a king whom the LORD your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens you must appoint a king– you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites.

  • Jer 30:22
    71%

    22Then you will again be my people and I will be your God.

  • Deut 4:35
    70%

    35You have been taught that the LORD alone is God– there is no other besides him.