TSK · Deuteronomy 7:6

And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,

You must be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.

The LORD will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. The LORD was pleased to make you his own people.

Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this unfaithfulness!”

Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his kingdom.

The Lord Encourages His People“You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend,

and say to them:“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day I chose Israel I swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore to them,“I am the LORD your God.”

“They will belong to me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,