Exodus 19:5-6
19:5 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,
19:6 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.”
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
7:6 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.
The Basis of Israel’s Election
7:7 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.
7:8 Rather 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.
Deuteronomy 14:2
14:2 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.
Deuteronomy 26:18
26:18 And today the
Lord has declared you to be his special people (as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.
Deuteronomy 32:9-14
32:9 For the Lord’s allotment is his people,
Jacob is his special possession.
32:10 The Lord found him in a desolate land,
in an empty wasteland where animals howl.
He continually guarded him and taught him;
he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.
32:11 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
that hovers over its young,
so the Lord spread out his wings and took him,
he lifted him up on his pinions.
32:12 The Lord alone was guiding him,
no foreign god was with him.
32:13 He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land,
and he ate of the produce of the fields.
He provided honey for him from the cliffs,
and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,
32:14 butter from the herd
and milk from the flock,
along with the fat of lambs,
rams and goats of Bashan,
along with the best of the kernels of wheat;
and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.
Psalms 135:4
135:4 Indeed, the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel to be his special possession.
Malachi 3:17
3:17 “They will belong to me,” says the
Lord who rules over all, “in the day when I prepare my own special property.
I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
Titus 2:14
2:14 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.
Titus 2:1
Conduct Consistent with Sound Teaching
2:1 But as for you, communicate the behavior that goes with sound teaching.
Titus 2:9
2:9 Slaves
are to be subject to their own masters in everything,
to do what is wanted and not talk back,