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Key Verse: 1 Peter 2:9 · NASB1995
Key Verse
“But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;”
1 Peter 2:9God has marked believers out as distinctly His own — not to make you strange for its own sake, but to make you visibly, purposefully His.
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“who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.”
Titus 2:14 · NASB1995First Peter 2:9 stacks up the titles — “a chosen race...a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession” — with a clear purpose attached: “that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness.” Titus 2:14 echoes it: Christ gave Himself “to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.” The goal was never strangeness for its own sake, but being visibly, purposefully His.
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Read 1 Peter 2 · NASB95 on Blue Letter BibleAdapted from “The Riches of Grace in Christ Jesus” by Lewis Sperry Chafer, from Salvation (Sunday School Times Company, 1917, public domain).
Scripture quotations are from the NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible, 1995 update), © The Lockman Foundation.