21 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

• Chosen People
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12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 1:1 — Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
• 1Cor 3:6 — I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
• 1Cor 9:16 — For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
• 1Cor 10:11 — Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
• 1John 4:10 — Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
• 1John 4:10 — Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
• 1John 4:19 — We love him, because he first loved us.
• 1John 4:19 — We love him, because he first loved us.
• 1Kgs 3:5 — In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
• 1Pet 1:2 — Elect 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.
• 1Pet 1:14 — As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
• 1Pet 3:2 — While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
• 1Pet 3:15 — But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
• 1Tim 2:7 — Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
• 2Tim 1:11 — Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
• 2Tim 2:2 — And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
• 2Tim 3:15 — And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
• Acts 1:8 — But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth
• Acts 1:24 — And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
• Acts 4:31 — And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
• Acts 9:15 — But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
• Acts 9:15 — But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
• Acts 10:41 — Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
• Acts 10:41 — Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
• Acts 20:25 — And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
• Acts 22:14 — And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.
• Col 1:6 — Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
• Col 1:6 — Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
• Col 1:10 — That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Col 1:23 — If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul
• Deut 10:8 — At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
• Eph 1:4 — According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
• Eph 2:10 — For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
• Eph 5:20 — Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Ezek 16:61 — Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
• Gal 1:15 — But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
• Gal 5:22 — But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Gen 18:18 — Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
• Gen 45:8 — So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
• Heb 11:4 — By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.