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.

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.

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.

For you are a holy people unto Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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.

In that day there shall be on the bells of the horses, HOLY TO JEHOVAH. And the pots in the house of Jehovah shall be like the bowls before the altar.

And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy to Jehovah of Hosts. And all those who sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them. And in that day there shall not ever again be a merchant in the house of Jehovah of Hosts.

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love,

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;

You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe produce and your juices. The firstborn of your sons you shall give unto Me.

and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your produce from the field.

All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and the grain, the firstfruits which they offer unto Jehovah, I have given them to you.

Woe to those at ease in Zion, and those trusting in the mountain of Samaria, noted as chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came.

For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

Of His own purpose He brought us forth by the Word of Truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He leads. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

Thus says Jehovah against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

All who have found them have devoured them. And their enemies said, We have done no wrong, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.

And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says Jehovah: Israel is My son, My firstborn.

And I say unto you, Let My son go that he may serve Me. And if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.

I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned My hand against their adversaries.

The haters of Jehovah would have cowered before Him, and their time would have endured forever.

He permitted no one to do them wrong; yea, He reproved kings for their sakes,

saying, Do not touch My anointed, and do My prophets no harm.

He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.

They performed His signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats in all their territory.

He struck their vines also, and their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their territory.

and ate up all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

Behold, all those who were enraged against you shall be ashamed and disgraced; they shall be as nothing. And those who strive with you shall perish.

I was angry with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into your hand. You have shown them no mercy; upon the aged you have laid your yoke very heavily.

Tell your sons about it, and your sons to their sons, and their sons to another generation.

He has made My vine desolation, and he has splintered My fig tree. He has stripped it bare, and thrown it down; its branches grow white.

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

And I am exceedingly angry at the nations at ease; for I was but a little angry, and they helped further the evil.

For thus says Jehovah of Hosts: He has sent Me after glory to the nations who plundered you; for he who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the peoples all around, and it shall also be against Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.

In that day I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness, says Jehovah. And I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the people with blindness.

And he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?

And he said, Who are You, Sir? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you persecute. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.