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1 Peter 2:9
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1 Peter 2:9
9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
9But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthood, an holy nation, a ‖peculiar people, that yee should shewe forth the ‖praises of him, who hath called you out of darknes into his marueilous light:
- Or, a purchased people.
- Or, vertues
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Peter 2:9
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Selected, preferred, or appointed from among others.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
generation
Offspring, a family line, people of one age, or the period of a lifetime.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
priesthood
The office, service, or order of priests.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Belonging to God or set apart for him; sacred; morally pure. Applied to God, it expresses his perfect purity; in Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, it identifies the Spirit of God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Belonging specially or exclusively; one's own.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To show; to make visible, reveal, declare, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Outward, onward, or away from a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Expressions of approval, honour, or commendation; also commends, extols, or glorifies.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Named, summoned, invited, proclaimed, or addressed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Absence of light; also obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
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Open the full verse study6For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
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Open the full verse study6And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
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Open the full verse study10And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
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Open the full verse study6But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
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Open the full verse study9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
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Open the full verse study18And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
19And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.
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Open the full verse study2For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
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Open the full verse study8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
10Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
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Open the full verse study5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
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Open the full verse study15Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
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Open the full verse study18To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
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Open the full verse study2Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
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Open the full verse study12Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
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Open the full verse study6Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
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Open the full verse study1ARISE, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
2For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
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Open the full verse study16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
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Open the full verse study13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
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Open the full verse study20But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
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Open the full verse study17If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
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Open the full verse study28¶ Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
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Open the full verse study21And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
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Open the full verse study2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
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Open the full verse study8But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
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Open the full verse study20The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
21This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
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Open the full verse study14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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Open the full verse study4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
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Open the full verse study1YET now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
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Open the full verse study16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
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Open the full verse study15That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
16Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
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Open the full verse study79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
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Open the full verse study5That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
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Open the full verse study2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
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Open the full verse study24Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
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Open the full verse study28Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
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Open the full verse study11If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
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Open the full verse study6To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
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Open the full verse study30A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
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Open the full verse study14Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
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Open the full verse study21Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
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Open the full verse study19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
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Open the full verse study15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
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