For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

And to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people unto the LORD your God, as he has spoken.

The LORD shall establish you a holy people unto himself, as he has sworn unto you, if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.

Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure unto 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.

Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, says the LORD.

You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own?

For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own, zealous of good works.

And spared not the ancient world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own, zealous of good works.