elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Jehovah has longed for your fathers, to love them; and He chose their seed after them, you out of all peoples, as it is this day.

A seed shall serve Him; it shall be recounted of Jehovah to the coming generation.

Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah; the people He has chosen for His possession.

If I had said, I will speak thus; behold, I would have deceived a generation of Your sons.

But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend;

Yet hear now, O Jacob My servant, and Israel whom I have chosen;

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.

But you shall be named, The Priests of Jehovah; and they shall call you, Ministers of our God. You shall eat the riches of the nations, and you shall revel in their glory.

And I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites, says Jehovah.

and has made us kings and priests to God, even His Father; to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign upon the earth.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no authority, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

that I may see the good of Your elect, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that I may glory with Your inheritance.

Open the gates, that the righteous nation, keeping faithfulness, may enter in.

And on their behalf I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in Truth.

If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

But Jehovah has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you are this day.

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 today Jehovah has declared you to be His treasured people, as He has promised you; for you to keep all His commandments,

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.

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

who is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify a people for His own possession, zealous unto good works.

If anyone speaks, let him speak as the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and might forever and ever. Amen.

This people that I have formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise.

Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen upon you.

And the nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawning.

Let your light so shine before men, so that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.

to Him be glory in the church in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

that you may be blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

holding fast the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them the light has shined.

Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen upon you.

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but Jehovah shall arise over you, and His glory shall be seen upon you.

The people who sat in darkness have seen a great Light, and upon those sitting in the region and shadow of death, Light has sprung up.

to give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Then Agrippa said to Paul, You almost persuade me to become a Christian.

whom He also called, not only of us Jews, but also of the Gentiles?

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

proving what is acceptable to the Lord.

I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.

Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.