Bible Cross References
thy people
Genesis 17:7
And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to be God unto you and unto your seed after you.
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will listen to obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
Exodus 19:6
And you shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak unto the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
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For you are a holy people unto Jehovah your God; Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure out of all the peoples upon the face of the earth.
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Jehovah did not set His love upon you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;
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but because Jehovah loves you, and to keep the oath which He has sworn to your fathers, Jehovah has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 26:18
And today Jehovah has declared you to be His treasured people, as He has promised you; for you to keep all His commandments,
Deuteronomy 26:19
and to make you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people unto Jehovah your God, as He has spoken.
1 Samuel 12:22
For Jehovah will not abandon His people, for His great name's sake, because Jehovah has undertaken to make you a people for Himself.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
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Behold, the days are coming, says Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,
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not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Jehovah.
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But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah, I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
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And they shall no more teach each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Jehovah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined. And I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, It is My people, and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
Romans 9:4-6
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who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the service of God, and the promises;
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of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, is Christ, being God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
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Moreover, it is not as though the Word of God has fallen away. For not all those of Israel are Israel,
Romans 9:25-6
Romans 9:26-6
Romans 11:1
I say then, has God cast away His people? Let it not be! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:2-12
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God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
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Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.
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But what does the Divine response say to him? I have reserved to Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.
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Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
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And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace no longer becomes grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
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What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
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Just as it is written: God has given them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.
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And David says: Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a stumbling block and a recompense to them.
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Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see, and bow down their back always.
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I say then, have they stumbled that they should come to an end? Let it not be! But through their trespass, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
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Now if their trespass is riches for the world; and their diminishing, riches for the Gentiles; how much more their fullness.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of His possession, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;